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Minnov8 Gang 387 – sNOw Emergency

December 17, 2016 By Steve Borsch

This week’s snow emergency turned in to a ‘no’ emergency in our view, but if you live in a place where towing cars is a much-needed winter activity then you should listen to our discussion about Julio Ojeda-Zapata‘s article regarding Apps keep you abreast of snow parking, assuming they’re up to date. You might want to download one of them!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Phil Wilson
Music: Crawdad by Ernie Lewis under a CC by 4.0 License

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