Frattalonis A. Shardware in Garden Stores brings your garage logic podcast number 581, March 17th, 2021 St. Patrick's Day.

It was 80 degrees on this day in that miraculous spring of 2012. We were golfing on St. Patrick's Day.

Eight below 1941 and two note on St. Patrick's Day in 1965 11.2 inches of snow. And there's an ice out today.

2016 Lake Minnetaka. You'll remember that yesterday in 2016 was White Bear and here Minnetaka followed a day later in 2016 a St. Patrick's Day ice out on the Big Tonka.

And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake. It's garage logic with rookie on production Chris Reaver's Director of Social Media, John Hyde in the newsroom, and occasionally Kenny from the Krabby Coffee Shop.

Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and keeper of common sense. Your mayor, Joe Sushare.

Hello America. How are you United States of America?

Did that 11 inches in 1965 contribute to the flooding? Yes, it was a good point. We had quite a flooded flooding year in the spring of 65, the St. Croix, the Mississippi, the Minnesota.

That's the great sandbag city around here. That's the story that Jim Cot likes to tell, isn't it? Yeah.

Yeah, when they had to give get him from Burnsville was it over the river to Met Stadium. LBJ came to town to view the swollen Mississippi.

He did so from down in what used to be called the Italian part of town, which is long since been swept away by development and what have you, but it was a big deal.

We were quite underwater there in 1965. It is St. Patrick's Day. Is that climate change by the way in 65? The reason we get all those flooding? Yeah.

You're 40 in 1965, were you not? Me? No Kenny, that's not true. I was on a... Do you recall, you wouldn't, you're too young. There was a great band, one of the local bands, the 60s were great times for local bands.

There was a great band in still water called the Morticians. I was on a sandbagging crew with the guys who happened to be in the morticians.

We got out of high school to be deployed around town as sandbaggers. My crew for some reason ended up in still water.

Lo and behold, I was working with my idols, the morticians. That's cool. Remember that time you guys played it?

My how times have changed. Could you imagine today if we received floods and a high school said, you know, we're going to deploy not one kid would show up for work.

Or very few kids would show up for work. Then I'll just go home and play Xbox.

Yeah, I think we were bus there. Were you giving an option or were you forced to? No, you know, it's a Christian brother school. I don't think we had an option.

You're going to go sandpick. Yes. What you're doing today. Yes brother.

Might have got driven down there by my man, brother bus. Oh, sure. We had a huge beautiful gray hound that we took to sporting events. The teams. Big gray. Double Dacker. Double Dacker.

But it was a beauty and brother bus was the commander. He was the captain. Cool. It was the mega bus. And I told you when the Christian brothers came out to the lake to swim every Sunday, bus he stayed back on the street, back on the road and just polished his bus.

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