ST.PAUL, Minn. – Time is short to vote in the snow plow-naming contest sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The deadline is Wednesday at midnight: DOT. Of 11,00 entries, these are the 50 finalists.
A Snowplow Named De-icer
All About That Snow
Betty Whiteout
Below Zero Hero
Blade of Glory
Blizzard of Oz
C-3PSnow
Catch My Drift
Coldy Gopher
Ctrl Salt Delete
Dontcha Snow
Edward Blizzardhands
Everyday I’m Shovelin’
Flake Superior
Frosty’s Demise
Giiwedin (Ojibwe for ‘north wind’)
Halloween Blizzard Avenger
How Now Orange Plow?
Ičamna (Dakota for ‘blizzard’)
L’Plow du Nord
Lord Coldemort
MinnesnowtaPlow
No Business Like Snow Business
No More Mr. Ice Guy
Northern Express
Not Snow Fast
Oh Fer Snow
Orange Thunder
Orange You Glad To See Me?
Plowasaurus Rex
Plowin’ in the Wind
Say it Ain’t Snow
Scoop Dogg
Scoopy Doo & Scraper Too
Sir Plows-a-Lot
Ski-U-Plow
Skol Plow
Sled Zeppelin
Snow Big Deal
Snowzilla
Sweet Carol-brine
Sweet Child O’ Brine
Thawnos
Timbrrrwolf
The Big Leplowski
The Iron Ranger
Uff Da
William Scrape-speare
Winter Warrior
Last year’s winning nicknames, one for each plowing distruct n the state:
> Plowy McPlowFace – Metro District.
> Ope, Just Gonna Plow Right Past Ya – District 4.
> Duck Duck Orange Truck – District 1.
> Plow Bunyan – District 2.
> Snowbi Wan Kenobi – District 6.
> F. Salt Fitzgerald – District 7.
> Darth Blader – District 3.
> The Truck Formerly Known As Plow – District 8.