Only in Minnesota

So, I have kind of been slacking by not writing and updating the blog. I promise I will try harder to keep up. Things have been going well for us up here so far. It has started to get cold, and could possibly snow on Monday, which is absolutely crazy. The new puppy is a handful, but we enjoy having her around. That is a little bit of an update about our life, now for the real purpose of writing this blog:
So a couple of days ago I am working at the wonderful Rogers Super Target (pronounced Super Tar-jhay). Everything is going well. I have plenty of cashiers, no angry guests, but then again, it is only 10 in the morning. There are still plenty of hours left in the day for something to go wrong. Like a visit from corporate, telling us that we aren't "speed-weaving" enough, or maybe that our signs need to have a price, even though the laundry detergent is 15 bucks!! Honestly, who wants to spend 15 bucks on laundry detergent. Anyhoo, I was making sure I was up to date with the break schedules, when all of a sudden, the lights start to flicker. It was like out of a movie. Then, everything went black. Now keep in mind, it was only for a couple of seconds, but let me tell you, those seconds were completely silent. Once the emergency lights came back on, and all of the 32 lanes of registers decided to reboot in the middle of about 10 transactions, pandemonium hit. All of the cashiers immediately acted like their IQ level dropped to zero and just stared at me. I, of course, was trying to get guests to purchase the merchandise in a "Fast, Fun, and Friendly" atmosphere, but that is hard to do when 15 people are asking what to do now, and about 50 guests were wondering the same thing. Everything ended up working out fine. The computers came back up. We were not allowed to open any of the coolers, at risk of loosing the product, which some guests didn't quite understand. We did loose all of the milk, but that was minor considering the rest of the dairy, meat, and frozen items were able to be salvaged. Now the question was: what could have caused this massive shut down to half of the city? Why a goose. A simple goose trying to fly south for the winter got a little side tracked and flew straight into power lines. Now that has to only happen in Minnesota. :-)