Fun costumes, candy and laughter for fall-weather holiday – rather than inches and inches of the white stuff
The scenes in the photos above feature the end result of the Halloween Blizzard of 1991, 25 years ago. That weather event still holds the records for highest snowfall total of any single storm and highest snowfall total in a 24-hour period, according to the University of Minnesota Climatology Working Group. Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico collected over Texas on Oct. 30 and swept north through the Midwest, where it met a wave of cold air dipping south from Canada. These ingredients combined to create what meteorologists called a “megastorm” that raged for three days, beginning just a few hours before trick-or-treaters started making their rounds on October 31.
Thankfully, Halloween 2016 was nothing like that. Afternoon temperatures today under in overcast sky in southwest Minnesota reached 61 degrees Fahrenheit.
Below is a photo gallery of happy Halloween hijinks from 2016:
A TYPICAL DAY at United Prairie Bank in Mountain Lake. (Photo courtesy of Christina Hanso
JOE BULLER “PUNCHES” out some good numbers on insurance rates at United Prairie Insurance. (Photo courtesy of Christina Hanson)
WAYNE’S WORLD, WAYNE’s World, party time, excellent! Garth and Wayne are actually sisters Erica Schroeder, left and Cheri Hanson, right, at Peterson Drug & Gifts. No way. Way! (Photo courtesy of Cheri Hanson)
CURIOUS GEORGE , RIGHT, and “The Man in the Yellow Hat,” left – otherwise known as Mary Classen. (Photo courtesy of Cheri Hanson)
GREAT MAKE-UP work by mom on this “broken doll,” Taylor Hudson. (Photo courtesy of Kristine Hudson)
NEVER FEAR, S. W. A. T. cop is here! (Sawyer Carrison). (Photo courtesy of Marny Carrison)
I’M THINKING . . . S’MORES. Aaron Petersen as the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. (Photo courtesy of Nikki Petersen)
JOEY FABER – A “real-life” cereal killer. (Photo courtesy of Deb Faber)
BREAKING A FEVER with this Disco Inferno quartet. From left, Brooke Naas, Jaycee Tollefson, Julia Brinkman and Annika Brinkman. (Photo courtesy of Andrea Brinkman)
A CAST OF pumpkin characters at the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake.
SNOOPY TOOK TIME off from chasing the Red Baron to visit residents and tenants at the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake.
KEEPING THE CROWS away – and welcoming visitors to the Halloween Party at the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake is Activities Director Cindy Quiring.
THIS LITTLE PUMPKIN, Olivia Pankratz, celebrates her first Halloween.
GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY of Mountain Lake Village resident Minnie Paulson brought out her “inner pumpkin” spirit.
MINI-MINION JACOB Pankratz, right, meets his matching pumpkin character, center, being held by his dad, Mark Pankratz, left.
“ANONYMOUS,” LEFT, has a secret identity, right Evan Karschnik? At right, The Lodge tenant Harry Wiens, delivers Halloween treats.
ROCKIN’ THE ORANGE-and-black Halloween colors is The Lodge Housing Director/Manager Sue Larson.
MOLLY PFEIFFER, CENTER, in the arms of her mom, Kristin Pfeiffer, left, receives a trick-or-treat treat from Dorothy Karschnik, right, tenant at The Lodge.
HAVING A LOT of Halloween fun handing out treats is The Lodge tenant, Elma Wolf.
HI JACK! WHAT a “hot dog!” Oscar Mayer? (Photo courtesy of Tammy Wolle)
