And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake.

It's garage logic with working on production, grace ravers, director of social media, John

Heiden, the newsroom, and occasionally Kenny from the crab may coffee.

John, here is a flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and keeper of common sense.

The only Joe Suschina.

Another weather event I did not know happened.

What's that?

I got an email from Terry Capp who says, as a long time indoor medallion hunter referring

to the same fall winter carnival treasure hunt.

What I take that to mean is he loves to try to figure out the clues.

I'm sure he'll hang on to go out there and freeze the dark.

As a long time indoor medallion hunter, I find that this time every year I learned new and

interesting facts about our area and its history.

Yesterday while following a rabbit trail about tornadoes inspired by clue number three, you

all right?

Inspired by clue number three, I discovered an amazing bit of history from 1890.

Perhaps you are aware of the fateful weather events of Sunday, July 13, 1890.

I wasn't.

At least 104 Minnesotans near St. Paul died due to the storm system that day.

Six individuals were killed when a cyclone hit the Jarvis Lake area around 5 p.m.

Even though that was my childhood neighborhood, I had not known of this previously.

The eight souls perished on Lake Peppin when a steamboat capsized during the storm.

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