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The husband’s wise affirmation 先生對妻子的祝福

先生參加的聖經研習團契（BSF）的小組長說，要用聖經箴言31章來讚美妻子，不要拿來要求妻子。何等有智慧的先生啊。因為先生說出來的祝福，將會塑造妻子變成箴言中的才德婦人！

The group leader in BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) my husband attends said that a wise husband would use Proverbs 31 in the bible to praise his wife, rather than request her to do the same. What a wise husband! Because the affirmation from the husband’s mouth will shape the wife to be the woman of noble character like in Proverbs 31.

不要以小人之心度君子之腹

我寫了電子郵件給先生，告訴他想和他帶小孩一起去教會看動畫電影「天路歷程」試映會。他回信只有一句話：那在south campus（南邊會堂）。
我氣沖沖地走下樓梯，到他身邊：
「南邊會堂在Duluth（明州北邊開車四小時的城市）嗎？」我諷刺地說。
「是你在電子郵件裡說在城中的會堂（downtown campus）啊。」先生淡定地回答，還打開我的電子郵件給我看。啊，我真的寫錯了，原來他是在糾正我。
我之所以氣沖沖，是把他的回答多想成：那裡很遠耶。
「對不起，是我寫錯，還用小人之心度君子之腹」。我立即認錯。
我彷彿看到自己像卡通裡那個走路有風的大野獸，突然栽跟斗跌在我先生面前。
先生哈哈大笑，問我是不是來興師問罪。我點頭承認。他笑得更大聲說，沒想到我一下子就漏風了。
有個讀理工科、不容易情緒化的先生還是不錯的。

Jesus reverses the destiny of Adam and Eve’s descendants

What is reality?
There are two realities in this earthly life: one is the life we all experience daily on the earth; the other one is in the outer space without gravity which only astronauts can go on the adventure. We cannot deny the existence of the outer space even though it’s unseen and intangible to our ordinary life.

 

Likewise, the visible reality in this finite life is temporary and partially real. Another unseen reality after death is eternal according to the Bible. We as mortal humans, cannot understand God’s eternity by our limited human senses. We cannot rely on any other man-made resources like religions, philosophy or even fortune tellers to prove our final destiny. Therefore, there’s only one way we can know about God: God needs to send a messenger directly from His heaven coming to earth and reveal the truth about Himself.

 

How is Christianity proved to be true?
No humans in the history ever predicted and fulfilled what they once said in their time. Only one man, prophesied with many signs in the Bible and all of the prophecy related to Jesus Christ  were fulfilled (see more information) from Jesus Christ’s birth from a virgin, His preaching and miracles, to His death on the cross. After Jesus Christ was resurrected from death, which was seen by hundreds of people in the historical time (see more information), His disciples were empowered by the promised Holy Spirit, who was sent to their hearts to give testimony and spread the gospel to the end of the world until today. It’s the victory Jesus Christ has done in the human history: destroy the devil and take back the lost souls to God.

 

How did the first human fall in the beginning?
Adam and Eve wanted to know the good and evil, the forbidden knowledge. They are created with a will to desire the tree of God’s life or choose to have the forbidden knowledge. Their desire of being like God is tempted and seduced by satan’s lie and they took the first bite of the fruit on the forbidden tree. Since then, their rebellious pride subjected themselves to satan’s dominion.

 

Along all the years, Adam and Eve’s descendants, all humans who inherit their DNA still reject God’s authority and want to gain the knowledge by their own power. They don’t know they are giving satan a legal foothold to dominate them. When they voluntarily walk away from the Kingdom of God’s Light of truth, they are in the kingdom of darkness whose main ruler is satan, the archangel.

 

What does the reality of living in satan’s kingdom look like?
Under satan’s illegitimate authority, a man/woman is like living in the prison. He may feel very comfortable with what he needs in his little cell. He can work hard, make a good living, enjoy earthly entertainment, look smart, have good reputation, manage a big firm, behave good virtues, religious, kind to the poor, successful in whatever he wants, etc. But he never feels satisfied with what he has. He needs to drive himself to pursue a dream or achievement. Even though he seems to give up pursuing anything, he longs for something deep in his heart, which makes him to crave, covet, envy, compare, regret, complain, etc. He may try to believe certain religion or philosophy to persuade himself to accept whatever reality he is faced with. He cannot tell what he is thinking is right or wrong because his feeling is controlling his thoughts: If he feels right, he believes it. If he feels wrong, he rejects it.

 

It’s like no one want to be deceived by the fraudster, who is so good at making things up to fool people to give up their possession. However, since he doesn’t know how to tell the truth, he either doesn’t believe at all, or believe partially. He thinks he is smart to guard his heart from being deceived by the fraudster. But in reality, he is insecure and uncertain. When everything is going well, he does not want to bother himself with questions about God and the meaning of life. But when the crisis comes suddenly like tsunami, he is panic and either complains about why he deserves such bad luck or demands to know where God is. He may seek some temporary relief in gambling, alcohol, drug or sex to numb his conscience. Or he may try to empty his mind by giving up the earthly desires to escape from the reality. No matter what he does, he never tastes the sweetness of genuine peace and joy.

 

When can a fallen human being be reversed?
Until one day, the gospel of good news comes to him: God sent His own son Jesus Christ to come to pay off his debt—his sin of rebelling God which causes him to come under Satan’s control and the wrath of God’s righteousness to punish sins. When he hears the truth from God’s word, God’s breath of life breathed into his spiritual nostril like oxygen to the body. His dead bone is awaken by the Holy Spirit’s breath of life. His conscience is clear and knows there’s Someone speaking to his heart. He feels God’s word is true and undeniable. However, the next step is critical for him: he either uses his will to believe or disbelieve, just like Adam and Eve were given a choice between the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of evil and good, being their own god to control.

 

When he wants to accept this truth, God gives him a gift of faith and he shall turn to the Light by walking away from the dark. And God’s Light gives life like sun to the plants and creature. However, if he doesn’t want to say yes to the truth, his heart automatically rejects the truth and he still remains in the darkness, just where he was.
Jesus Christ said he comes to save, not to judge. All sinful humans are in the hell of darkness. Without coming to the Light, they automatically stay where they are after death. But whoever wants to walk away from the darkness and receive Jesus Christ’s saving payment for his debt will ascend to God’s heavenly realm in eternity. Jesus Christ shed His blood on the cross to bear the man’s sins so that satan cannot accuse him anymore. Meanwhile, satan lost his power over this acquitted man. God sees Jesus Christ’s blood on the sinner and give him forgiveness because Jesus absorbs all the wrath and punishment falling on the sinner.

 

God pursues us.
Out of His mercy and patience, God may come back again and again to knock on the man’s door of heart and want to save him from the eternal death. However, the more he rejects, the harder his heart will become. Until the heart is hard like a stone, there’s no chance for him to want to leave darkness and satan is very comfortable to leave him alone because his destiny is for sure to be with satan and his companions, one third of angels, who all will be thrown into the lake of fire when Jesus Christ comes back (refer to Revelation 20:10).

 

What is happening with the new man after he believes in Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord of his life?

 

God will start His reversing process in this man. In his old life, he is in the darkness. So is his heart blinded. His conscience is guilty and impure. His spirit is dead. His heart deceives himself by agreeing with satan’s lies. Consequently, his heart influences his thought with false reasoning from the secular standard of values and against godly truth. His emotion is dark and cause him to feel gloomy, negative, depressed, obsessed, etc. He has no will of freedom to control his emotion but his will is controlled by his feeling. He is trapped and imprisoned.

 

When God starts the reversing process in him, God sends the Spirit of His Son into his heart to empower his spirit to obey God. Then his heart learns from the truth which sets his imprisoned will free. Then he can make up his mind to take captive his thought to obey the truth and the truth transforms his thought to think in God’s way. His emotion is healthy related to his godly thought. His old stronghold of ungodly thinking habit is broken and the Truth builds in him a new thinking pattern. This godly thought produces right emotion and bears the fruit of Holy Spirit such as peace, joy, love, gentleness, kindness, goodness, patience, faithfulness and self control (refer to Galatians 5:22-23).

 

You are transformed and victorious!
As a result, these fruits revive his spirit, restore his soul and nurture his body. He is healed and strengthened as a whole being, just like the one God created in His image in the first place. The whole process is reinforced daily and renewing his inner being until he receives a new body when Jesus Christ comes back.

為什麼喝牛奶，不喝牛尿？

基督教護教學者拉維‧撒迦利亞（Ravi Zacharias）說了一個真實的故事。在美國的法庭上，一個律師為出版色情刊物的大老闆弗萊恩特（Larry Flynt）辯護。他問證人說：「你是否付錢去博物館看畫，其中有些還是裸體畫。如果你願意付錢去博物館，那我問你，為什麼付錢買色情刊物看裸體照片不行呢？」可惜這個證人沒有律師的伶牙俐齒而無法反駁。

似是而非之理 令人難辯駁
拉維‧撒迦利亞引用魯益師（C.S.Lewis）所寫的《天路回程》（The pilgrim’s regress）書中的故事，給我們一些啟示，想想這兩者有何不同。

故事裡有個邪惡獄卒常對監獄中的囚犯說扭曲的話。這個獄卒說：「牛奶跟牛尿都是牛的分泌物啊。你說牛奶好喝，那牛尿不也可以喝嗎？」剛到獄中的約翰，不像其他在監獄中待了很長時間的人，被這個獄卒洗透腦子，他的思想中還存有基本邏輯和常識。

約翰說：「我看得出來你實在是在胡說八道，你假裝把不一樣的東西說成是類似的東西。你想讓我們相信牛奶跟尿或大便是一樣的。」

獄卒說：「那你說說看有什麼不一樣，除了大家習慣於喝牛奶，而不是喝尿？」

約翰說：「你是騙子還是笨蛋呢？你竟然看不出來大自然的構造有何不同嗎？從牛體內排出來的是廢物，儲存在牛裡面的是養分。」

獄卒不屑地說：「所以你就相信大自然像人一樣，都有被創造的目的。也難怪你想要相信大自然有其構造，因為這會讓你的良心好過一點。」

約翰說：「我沒想得那麼複雜。我只知道事實是牛奶可以餵養小牛，但是牛糞不行。」

撒迦利亞說，人原本是依照大自然的現實原則生活與行事。例如，手碰到火覺得燙，下次就小心不要用手去碰。這完全符合人類的本能，根本不用大道理說明。然而，當人捨棄真理、思想逐漸被自我或世界的謊言扭曲後，原本簡單的東西變得混淆，即便根本是一派胡言，卻因無法辯駁而漸漸地麻木接受。

身處亂世如何不受迷惑？
回到法庭現場，你能回答這個律師，看色情刊物和去博物館看到裸體畫的差別在哪裡嗎？撒迦利亞說：「製作色情刊物的人，希望挑起你的情慾，讓你想入非非，但是使你光看又得不到滿足。」

想想當今社會上，有哪些論調違反自然構造與道德，如同「喝牛尿，不喝牛奶」的胡說八道，卻逐漸形成風潮或變成常態？你身在其中，能有智慧辨別，能有勇氣說不嗎？

企圖違反大自然的創造，卻以為這叫作自由，其實是自欺欺人、害人害己。不認同宇宙有創造者的真理；不承認上帝、罪與魔鬼的存在，那麼人類就逐漸失去辨別真理的能力，如同落入沒有真理亮光的監牢，被魔鬼、邪惡獄卒所欺騙與轄制，出現喝牛尿、吃牛糞的結果也就不足為奇。

聖經提到舊約中，神在西乃山上跟摩西說話，摩西下山後整個人臉皮發光，亮到使族人害怕靠近他，摩西只好用帕子遮臉（參出埃及記卅四章29-33節）。聖經新約中，保羅說這帕子還遮住人的心，使人看不見神與真理。但是當我們的心幾時相信歸向主耶穌，帕子就幾時除去（參哥林多後書三章15-16節）。

你希望在亂世中當個智者，不受迷惑、不人云亦云嗎？聖經說：「敬畏耶和華是智慧的開端，認識至聖者便是聰明。」（箴言九章10節）你希望擁有真自由，去做對的事，並拒絕認同不合倫理道德的事嗎？「上帝的真理必叫你得自由。」（參約翰福音八章32節）同情罪人不等於姑息罪惡；宣揚真理不等於製造仇恨。在萬丈懸崖邊圍上欄杆，是保護而不是限制。認識主耶穌基督所教導的智慧，是你拆穿黑暗謊言的唯一指標。實踐主耶穌愛神、愛人的誡命，是你勝過罪惡與魔鬼、挽救失喪靈魂的最有效武器。

還不認識上帝的你，或為未信主的人可以這樣禱告：
上帝，我（或希望某人）想要相信真理，不受謊言迷惑，不受罪惡魔鬼轄制。我求您向我（某人）顯現，求您透過聖經的話教導我（某人）能認識並相信您，救我（某人）脫離黑暗恐懼得著真自由。求您賜給我（某人）新心、新靈，除去我（某人）的石心，賜給我（某人）肉心，使我（某人）的良心不麻痺。奉主耶穌基督的名求，阿們。

脫離律法主義，不要讓主耶穌的血白流

最近我在ＢＳＦ查經，讀到大衛王與拔示巴的醜聞，和之後他兒子之間的紛爭。大家討論的不外乎是如何不要像大衛「太閒」大白天在屋頂上走來走去，看到美女洗澡而落入試探；或是他應該好好「教訓」強暴他女兒的暗嫩，和為妹妹報復而殺害暗嫩的押沙龍。但是我突然有個感動，想到大衛王跟我們比起來，應該是對神相當有信心的人，畢竟他用一顆石頭就擊敗歌利亞，連神都說大衛是合他心意的人。
所以我不禁想到，這個不比當今社會版腥羶的故事為什麼記錄在聖經裡？是為了叫我們後人注意不要跟他一樣犯罪？在大衛為拔示巴的事認罪之後，他寫著說：「我就把你的道指教有過犯的人，罪人必歸順你」（詩篇51:13），我想這指的是上帝連他這樣的人都原諒了，我們這些犯罪的人也都能歸順神。
叫人按照聖經的真理活，不應該是為了遵守誡命而戰戰兢兢，像舊約的律法一樣，因為連耶穌都說要遵守的誡命只有兩條：愛神和愛人如己。所以我們應當從整本聖經更認識神的慈愛與公義，而不是事後像不甘己事一樣去數落這些上帝知道不過是塵土的罪人。因為我們也都可能做出同樣的事，但耶穌的寶血就是為了讓罪人可以藉著悔改而回到天父面前才流的，我提醒自己不要落入律法主義而使主耶穌的寶血浪費了。

Your identity in Christ–You are God’s child

I am God’s child.

Meditate on the verses to know your identity in Christ:

Romans 8:14: For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Romans 8:16:The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Galatians 3:26: For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 4:7: Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

John 1:12:But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

1 John 3:10: By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

 

You are God’s creation in His image. God brings you to this world so that you can know Him, love Him, enjoy Him and glorify Him, which is the meaning of your life.

God sent Jesus Christ to this world to seek you and tell you that He loves you. At the moment you hear His voice and receive His word and believe Him to be your Creator and Savior, you are reconciled with the Father God.

You are not a slave to your sins and under the devil’s dominion anymore because Jesus Christ paid your debt of death by shedding His blood on the cross. And Jesus Christ is risen from the death and brings you together to sit by the side of our Father God, as an heir with His royal authority.

How do you know you are His child? God sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in your heart when you believe in Jesus Christ’s name. And this Spirit gives you assurance and peace to know you are not believing a fantasy but the truth recorded in the history and the Bible. Even though there’s no visible sign to prove it, the assurance in your heart is a sign because non-believers don’t have this peace in their hearts no matter how they try to reason with themselves. They cannot even say that Jesus Chris is their Lord from their mouths, which could result from either their sins or the devil is hindering them from saying it out loud. This is my American friend’s testimony when she asked a non-believer to say Jesus Christ is her Lord and she cannot even pretend it.

This faith is also not from the secular knowledge. A pastor’s wife from South Africa shared with me that when she was eight years old, she received Jesus as her Savior because she didn’t want to die and go to hell. When she was around her grandmother, who was a fortune-teller at that time, her grandmother needed to ask her to go away because she lost the power of telling people their fortune when this young Christian was around.

Another friend from Taiwan shared about her sister’s testimony. When her sister received Jesus Christ as her Lord, she was ignorant and brought by a friend to see a fortune teller. But out of her surprise, this fortune teller asked her if she is a Christian because he cannot tell her fortune like he does to other non-believers.

See, God’s Holy Spirit is already in these young believers’ hearts and protect them from the devil’s dirty hand to touch or deceive them.

As a believer, the first thing you can practice God’s righteousness is: Sincerely proclaiming you are God’s child by faith in Jesus Christ daily. When you do it, the devil cannot hinder you from claiming all the promises God want to bless you. And you also shine out Jesus Christ’s light and righteousness as you stand firm in this faith in the dark world.

Prayer: Dear Father God, I thank you for receiving me as Your child when I receive Jesus Christ as my Savior from my sins and the Lord of my life. Thank You for giving me the Holy Spirit to dwell in my heart so that I can be guided and taught by You to walk on Your righteous path to the eternity. In Jesus Christ’s name I praise You with all my heart. Amen.

暴雪襲明州 「最強鏟雪隊」出動

新一波暴風雪23日襲擊明尼蘇達州，國家氣象局預報雪量將達8到12吋，每小時最高風速50哩，由於之前雙子城聖保羅和明尼亞波利斯2月降雪已經打破歷史紀錄，明州交通廳提醒民眾，風雪期間道路容易打滑且能見度低，應盡量減少外出。

國家氣象局預報，23日晚間6時到24日晚間6時的風雪，將為明州東北區帶來8到12吋的積雪，雙子城也會有3到5吋積雪。

此外，23日白天高溫為華氏33度，24日最高溫降到20度，冷鋒效應的體感溫度則跌到零下，氣象局表示，25、26日還會繼續飄雪，25日最高溫為華氏6度。

上一波冬季風暴在明州雙子城都會區降下10吋積雪，創下雙城有史以來的二月降雪最高紀錄，截至20日下午6時為止，雙城區機場降雪量達8.9吋，2月份積雪總量達30.4吋，打破雙城都會區1962年2月創下的25.6吋記錄，也是雙城史上十大最寒冷月份之一。

明州冬季眾所皆知十分漫長，而今年雪量更屢創新高，明州交通廳為讓民眾了解道路清除積雪情形，日前錄製了鏟雪實況，影片中六輛大型鏟雪車一字排開，沿著高速公路鏟雪，相當壯觀，約1分40秒的影片公布不到三天，就有近百萬次點閱，不少人紛紛留言稱讚這是「全美最強鏟雪隊伍」。

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另方面，接連幾次大雪，明州許多地區的消防栓被深埋在雪中。光是聖保羅市就有超過7000個消防栓被雪埋住，聖保羅市消防隊呼籲民眾，協助將消防栓四圍三呎寬的區域積雪清除，讓消防隊員可以在緊急用水時，快速找到水源。

聖保羅市消防局長莫克梭(Roy Mokosso)指出，一旦發生火災，如果要花上幾分鐘找到消防栓，再花幾分鐘剷雪，可能總共要花上六分鐘才能使用消防栓，這對幾秒鐘就可能大幅蔓延的火勢非常不利。

這波「清除消防栓積雪」活動(Free The Fire Hydrants)，目前獲得明州各地響應。

如何聽見神的聲音？

聖經說：「神的道路是義人的避難所」（直譯自箴言10:29a NIV: The way of the Lord is a refuge for the righteous.）
已經相信上帝的人，都因主耶穌的公義成為義人。而且神的道路高過人的道路（思維）。所以只要願意來尋求聽神的聲音，並遵循神心意的人，就能穩妥活在神的平安的避難所裡，不再受自己的罪惡的綑綁轄制，也不受撒旦魔鬼的欺騙或欺壓。
如何能聽到神的聲音呢？葛理翰牧師（Billy Graham）說：「如果神要我們能聽見祂的聲音，祂就會賜給我們這樣的能力」（參看耶利米書24:7;7:23）。
那麼怎麼聽見神的聲音呢？葛理翰牧師說：「如果你來禱告，並默想神在聖經中說的話語，我們的靈就會認出祂的聲音」，就像我們認得自己的家人或孩子的聲音一樣。
愛你的天父等著要告訴你祂的心意，因為祂要祝福一切聽見祂並遵行的人。人的好意不能取代神的聲音。求神給你力量，帶領你自己來透過禱告和讀聖經，明白祂對你的愛，因為祂承諾永遠不離棄你，也不撇下你。祂要親自指教你當做的事，使你得著屬天的盼望與祝福。
禱告：親愛的天父，謝謝您賜給我相信您的心，使我能成為您的孩子。當我讀聖經、禱告時，求您透過聖靈來對我說話，並賜給我力量，使我聽見您的話語就去行，我就成為蒙福的人。奉主耶穌基督的名禱告。阿門。

明州寒冬 住家除雪去冰防意外

明尼蘇達州20日又遭暴風雪襲擊，也讓每年入冬後，明州各種「冰雪」意外頻傳，日前一名10歲男孩行經明尼亞波利斯市的空中走道(skyway)，意外被掉落的冰柱刺傷，頭上縫了七針，市府立即提醒大家留意安全，而除了市區建物冰柱對行人造成危險，一般住家房子如不定時清理，屋頂也很容易因此受損。

根據明尼蘇達大學推廣課程網站(University of Minnesota Extension)指出，在住家屋頂邊緣有垂下的冰柱，表示屋頂上可能有冰壩(ice dam)堆積，這些屋簷處積雪結冰的「冰壩」，一段時間後可能阻塞排水管，使屋頂雪水無法排除，嚴重時排水管會受損，並使屋頂瓦片鬆動，造成融化的雪水流進屋內。

冰壩形成的原因是家中暖氣上升至屋頂內的閣樓空間，因隔熱不完全而散發至戶外，使屋頂上方的積雪融化而流到屋簷，隨後因戶外低溫又結冰，一段時間後冰雪堆積在屋簷上，使屋頂上融化的雪水無法排除而回流，並可能滲進屋頂瓦片，流入室內天花板上的閣樓空間。

專家表示，在明州很少看到沒有冰壩問題的房子，除冰壩一勞永逸的方法就是加強隔絕屋頂閣樓的熱氣散失與通風，快速解決冰壩的簡便方法是站在安全的地面上，用長柄的鋁製耙子(snow shovel roof rake)刮除屋簷積雪，但清掃時要特別小心以免傷害屋頂瓦片。

家中屋頂如有漏水情形，可以在氣溫回溫時，用水管澆水使冰壩溶解，但只能暫時救急。建議處理屋頂問題需要找專業人士，因為攀爬樓梯到屋頂上相當危險。

根據老房子網站(This old house)建議，不要使用鐵鎚、鑽子、或雪鏟敲打冰壩，這些舉動會損壞屋頂，並且大冰塊掉落時造成人身危險。

另外民眾如使用融雪防冰的鹽灑到屋頂，效果並不好，且掉落在地上的鹽分可能傷害庭院裡種植的植物，建議找專業公司在屋頂上裝置加熱電線(heated cable)，以Z字形的方式固定在屋頂邊緣，通電加熱來防止冰壩堆積。

再者也可使用絲襪裝入融冰用的氯化鈉(calcium chloride ice melter)，放在屋簷處的冰壩上，或用長柄耙子把它推到適當的地方，目的讓融化的雪水流入排水管。

大雪學校停課與否 明州家長兩難

冬季漫長的明尼蘇達州，入冬後如遇低溫天候，往往在戶外停留超過五分鐘就可能凍傷，許多學校擔心學生站在戶外等校車或開車上學危險，日前北極渦旋來襲，不少學校乾脆一連放假四天，學生開心不用上學同時，卻苦了要上班的家長。

按照明州法律，學區可以根據氣溫過低或是下雪自行決定是否停課，但校方除了天氣以外，還會考慮上課天數與學生家庭境等因素，例如明尼亞波利斯市的公立學校有一半的學生，因家境清寒領有免費午餐，學校停課時這些學生的午餐就沒有著落。

上一波大雪沒有預期地大，因此明尼亞波利斯市的學校未停課，從事平面攝影的張小姐不得不開車送三個孩子到學校，途中看到前方的車子，因煞車閃避前方切換車道的車子而開始打滑，導致張小姐跟著踩煞車後車子也打滑到衝到最外車道，車頭狠狠撞上護欄，還好她和孩子都沒有受傷，但車子嚴重損毀。

日前下大雪，陳太太讀中學的孩子搭校車遲了兩小時才到家，下大雪時，學區通常選擇延遲上課或是提前放學，但聖保羅市學區卻沒辦法這樣做，因為該學區的校車分為三梯次(three tiers)，也就是說同一輛校車，會先在下午2時接送高中生放學，接著3時再送中學生，小學生則要等到4時才有校車搭乘返家。

一旦下雪路況不好，接送學生放學的校車就容易誤點，去年1月大雪，使學生等不到校車被迫滯留學校數個小時，有的校車還遇到大塞車，學生直到半夜才回到家，讓家長非常擔心。

明州新州長沃茲(Tim Walz)在上一波大雪期間，表示尊重「各地方學區決定」，而沒有宣布全州停課，但前任州長卡爾森(Arne Carlson)和戴頓(Mark Dayton)就任期間，都曾因大雪或低溫宣布全部學校不用上學。