A firsthand view of the cost of a winter parking mistake

Via Twitter, Star Tribune reporter Jennifer Brooks shared the feeling of coming back to your car during a snow emergency and realizing it had been towed.

February 4, 2016 at 1:58PM
A not-so-lonely night at the Minneapolis impound lot.
A not-so-lonely night at the Minneapolis impound lot. (Vince Tuss — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

It's a mistake that many have made and few will forget. You come back to your car during a winter snow emergency, only to find it gone.

It was a horror that reporter Jennifer Brooks shared via Twitter on Wednesday night. Check out her tweets from the mean streets of Minneapolis to a nighttime visit to the impound lot.

If, like her, you need a refresher course in snow emergency parking rules but wish it were less expensive, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have apps, which reporter Tim Harlow recently reviewed.

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Vince Tuss

Night home-page producer

Vince Tuss is a producer working on the StarTribune.com home page most evenings. Before that, he was a copy editor and a night police reporter.

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