Oh, For Sleet’s Sake was one of the top vote-getters in the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s annual Name a Snowplow contest.
It will soon join the state’s fleet of snowplows in District 3, which covers Central Minnesota, including Brainerd.
Northeastern Minnesota’s newest plow will be Minne-Snow-ta, while Sled Zeppelin will join the Northwest region’s fleet.
Other winning names this year are Flurrious George, K Pop Blizzard Hunter, Every Day I’m Shovelin’, O Brother, Where Art Plow? and The Life of a Snowgirl.
Nearly 19,000 voters cast a ballot in the state’s sixth contest.
MnDOT now has 52 named snowplows.
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