Heavy rains, damaging winds and hail swept through Shakopee at 1 p.m. today. The Rolfsruds are fine. Trees are down and water is standing about, but we're sure it wasn't catastrophic enough to cause the cancellation of Men's League this afternoon. Life goes on.
Conditions leading up to the event were most ominous. Stan needs no weather channel. He reads the natural signs: the sky turned a sickly green and Kathleen, always in tune to this kind of thing, carried her new purse on her shoulder as she scurried about closing the windows.