Today we woke to pouring rain, that’s supposed to turn into 2-4 inches of heavy snow by midday. Autumn is starting to at least think about giving way to winter. Of course, this happens semi-regularly in Minnesota: Halloween and snow fall sharing the date.  Anyone my age who grew up in Minnesota remembers the great Halloween blizzard of 1991.  I don’t, because my family was living in Indiana at the time, but even further east, that year we had a pretty stellar ice storm that knocked out power for...