2/24/2006

2/24/2006 I was at the gym working out today with my buddy Steph when I got a phone call from The Weather Channel. “Doug, can you go to Duluth and get us video for Evening Edition?” Hmm, let’s see, Duluth is about 200 miles away from my place, its 2:00 P.M. and I all of my equipment was at home. Um Sure… we wrapped up the work out and I bailed home to pack my gear and hit the road. A couple hour’s later and I was in downtown Duluth with about a foot of new snow.

Duluth, MN frozen harbor

I have never been to Duluth but I was suppose to come up here on a weekend vacation last summer until a storm ruined those plan’s and everything else… Duluth seems like an ok town but it seemed to me as a place that was cool to visit but I would not want to live there. I stayed for a while and into the overnight and shot some more video for the network before I came back home. The snow was deep in parts of town but the hill’s in town and the change in elevation was what really got me. It was about 650 feet at the lake and you gained almost 600 feet just driving up a few miles to the west. My ears popped and I could really feel the change in air pressure.