Snow emergencies seem to catch hundreds in Twin Cities by surprise

The city of St. Paul gave a special welcome to recent Brazilian émigré Daniela Pezzini Tuesday night — it towed her car.

“I just moved here,” a frowning Pezzini said Wednesday as she and a friend stood in a growing line of people waiting to retrieve their vehicles at the St. Paul Police Department Snow Emergency Impound Lot after the city declared its first snow emergency of the winter. “And I just bought my car, too. I don’t understand.”

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