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Flooding in Duluth and North Shore

Jun 20, 2012 13 Comments

Rain, rain, go away. With 6-8 inches of precipitation in the past 18 hours, flooding in Duluth and the surrounding area has caused serious problems for everyone. With more rain on the way things are probably going to get worse before they get better. I have been personally fighting a flooding basement, but feel fortunate that is all I have had to deal with. I am wondering if now is the time to start building an ark?

Post your Duluth Flood 2012 pictures and videos in the comments.

Homegrown Music Fest Twitter Feed #hgmf12

May 01, 2012 8 Comments

Post your top Homegrown (#hgmf12) tweets in the comments below!

Events, News and Current Affairs Homegrown Music Festival, Twitter

Minnesota Northern Lights

Apr 25, 2012 7 Comments

I was fortunate enough to be up the North Shore Monday night near Grand Marais and caught an awesome Aurora Borealis Storm that was, dare I say, a Perfect Grand Marais Night. This art showing by Mother Nature was one that I would have thought I’d have to travel to northern Norway to witness. I have seen the Northern lights many times in the past, but this was pretty amazing, there were many moments over the course of 3 hours I had to duck as I thought they were gonna hit me. I probably should have been wearing a tin foil hat.

Outdoors, Photos Northern Lights, Weird

Time-lapse video of Superior’s North Shore

Apr 04, 2012 9 Comments

This is a pretty cool compilation of time-lapse videos taken over the past few weeks along the North Shore. Definitely an early spring on the shore. I’m still trying to figure out what that lightning flash thing is at 1:07 during the Aurora activity, some kinda gamma ray flash or something. Pretty sweet.

Outdoors, Videos North Shore of Lake Superior

Where on the North Shore?

Mar 21, 2012 17 Comments

Photos Where in Duluth?

2012 Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament Schedule Brackets

Mar 07, 2012 2 Comments

The Minnesota State High School Hockey tournament is starting today. The Duluth area has three teams competing this year — Duluth East Greyhounds in class AA, Hermantown Hawks and Marshall Hilltoppers in class A. Below is the schedules for both brackets. Good luck boys!

Does anyone have any good Minnesota State High School Hockey Tourney stories? From what I “remember” it was pretty crazy when I went.

MN State Hockey Class AA Live Bracket Click Here
MN State Hockey Class A Live Bracket Click Here

News and Current Affairs, Sports Hockey

PDD transferring to new server

Jan 28, 2012 8 Comments

Server Migration

Here is what monitors look like when one spends his Saturday night migrating Perfect Duluth Day to a new VPS server. The amount of data currently used by PDD is 3.4GB, needless to say that takes a little while to transfer and reconfigure.

Oh, side-note, the old server was in Canada the new one is in the USA. I feel so patriotic right now!

News and Current Affairs Geeky, PDD Shop Talk

William (Billy) Harper found dead at UMD

Dec 06, 2011 1 Comment

UMD released the name of a student found dead in his dorm Monday. William “Billy” Harper, 19 from Coon Rapids, was discovered dead in his room at Heany Hall on Monday. Lisa Erwin, chancellor of student life, says it appears he died of natural causes. Billy Harper was enrolled in the Labowitz School of Business and Economics. He was very active in sports and talented football player in high school. My prayers are with his friends and family.

News and Current Affairs, R.I.P.

Minnesota Deer Hunting Opener 2011

Nov 05, 2011 29 Comments

The 2011 Minnesota deer hunting season is officially open.

I am coming to you from my deer stand in Kelsey, MN. It has been pretty quite morning thus far for our hunting party, but the season is still young. Hopefully we harvest a few over the next few days.

How have others faired around the northland this season?

Good luck and be safe!

Outdoors Hunting

Club Saratoga Ad on Jay Leno

Oct 15, 2011 8 Comments

Club Saratoga ad … as mentioned on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Videos

Duluth MN Web Cams

Oct 01, 2011 11 Comments

If you know of any area web cams please post a link in the comments.

Outdoors, Videos Guides and Lists

Minnesota North Shore Fall Colors Report 2011

Sep 26, 2011 15 Comments

The fall colors season is upon us. Be sure to get out and check out your favorite places around area to enjoy the changing of the season colors. It has been reported that it will be a great year and I have already noticed some pretty vivid changes taking place.

I also recommend you snap a photo or two of some fall colors when you are out and about and post them here on PDD.

Outdoors Fall Colors

Jani Lane found dead in his hotel room

Aug 12, 2011 3 Comments

Lead singer for 1980’s hair band Warrant was found dead at the Woodland Hills Comfort Inn in L.A. last night. Jani Lane was 47 years old and was probably best known for the hit “Cherry Pie.” The cause of death is unknown.

Maybe a band at this years Duluth Tribute Fest, at Bayfront Park Aug. 26-27, will cover a Warrant song or two in memory of Jani?