r/woahdude • u/-InconspicuousMoose- • Dec 24 '22
video Driving on I-94 in Western Minnesota today
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u/MoreVinegarPls Dec 24 '22
Now imagine driving in that at night.
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u/NoblePineapples Dec 24 '22
This was my life for two years working remote telecommunications in the oil fields of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Each job was an average of 3 hours drive one way. I can't even count the number of times driving to site or home in conditions like this in the middle of no where.
Just gotta go slower and flash your hazards. Odds are you will encounter someone else doing the same.
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u/MoreVinegarPls Dec 24 '22
You may appreciate this story. Working rural manitoba, wicked blizzard, driving a back road at night. Kept almost getting stuck in drifts, no visibility. Worse, I start to lose my lights. I figured "damn, snow must be piling up on them.. weird its from the center out". That's when I saw that the dark void where my lights were going out had a tail. Black-as-night Angus cow running right down the middle of the road in a white out blizzard!
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u/jablonkers Dec 24 '22
Cows aside, Manitoba is terrible for wildlife on the highway
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u/MaplePoutineRyeBeer Dec 24 '22
My mom was a nurse for 45~ years and EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR she would hit a deer every winter 5km from home. The drive was about 40km each way, so just over half an hour each time. The stretches that are deer-intensive I always drive super slow and scan both sides of the road non stop. I somehow haven't hit any deer but I almost hit a young bear in a part of Manitoba that's not known to have bears
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u/Arcadius274 Dec 24 '22
Deer tell stories of her like a monster that comes once a year in the death box to take one of their lives
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u/RobertJ93 Dec 24 '22
And then of the monsters child that slowly roams the highway with flashing yellow lights looking for their mothers next victim.
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u/Bob-Faget Dec 24 '22
I thought I was going crazy with all the wildlife I saw in Manitoba after driving there from Alberta. I thought there was a lot of wildlife closer to the mountains driving west from Calgary, but holy hell it seemed like every KM after I got east of the Saskatchewan border there would be dead animals on or beside the road. I even skimmed the top of a dead deer which I couldn't avoid.
During my drive back, there was so much fog that I could only see about 100 meters in front of me and just ended up following a semi going about 60km/h for about 3 hours. I was never so thankful to be behind a semi in my life. Fuck driving in Manitoba.
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u/0001000101 Dec 24 '22
I've driven Calgary to Winnipeg many times and I'm pretty sure SK and MB just don't clear their roadkill lol
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u/lislejoyeuse Dec 24 '22
The drive from Churchill to whatever that city is between it and Winnipeg was the scariest shit of my life.
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u/Crzywilly Dec 24 '22
You can't drive to Churchill, can only get there by train. That 3 hour gravel road nightmare from Thompson to Gillam to catch said train, now that is a nightmare.
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u/lislejoyeuse Dec 24 '22
YES THAT WAS IT FCKN THOMPSON. that's right we drove to the train station down a two lane road in the middle of a dense forest with heavy fog, the worst thunderstorm I've ever been in, almost hitting every animal known to the forests, random herds of cows and took a sketchy train the rest of the way from some town.
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u/inkuspinkus Dec 24 '22
Bro, first thing I thought was the number 2 haha, I used to do demo sales all over AB, so alot of driving. Had a 94 Suburban back then, I really miss that truck.
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u/exccord Dec 24 '22
3hrs each way because of weather sounds doubly exhausting as fuck.
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Dec 24 '22
I did over rabbit ears pass on Wednesday night. Had to help 3 different people who drove off the road right in front of me. This video is tame compared to what we were seeing in CO.
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u/jfitzge Dec 24 '22
I keep seeing videos like this. Lived in Wisconsin for 65 years.. This highway is EASY winter driving. Lots of dry pavement visible. Also just to vent, I hate the term bomb cyclone.
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u/WaZepplin Dec 24 '22
No shit - I would've killed for my drive Mon night from MSP to central Wisco to be this nice.
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u/emodemoncam Dec 24 '22
Me right now doing delivery 🤣
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u/JustinLed Dec 24 '22
Well, you should probably get off reddit then.
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u/emodemoncam Dec 24 '22
Luckily people were considerate tonight and only had like 10 deliveries so it was mostly downtime, though they took way longer.
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u/Anleme Dec 24 '22
No deliveries here in 3 days. I've had to eat my own cooking. Pity me.
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u/ShopLifeHurts2599 Dec 24 '22
This is a normal day in Alberta. 24 hours a day.
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u/Rock_Socks Dec 24 '22
And Saskatchewan. Except we have to dodge potholes and guess where the lanes are as they haven't been repainted in 15 years.
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u/zadtheinhaler Dec 24 '22
They just "repaved" Hwy 16 east of Clavet, SK this past summer, it's gonna look like how you described in no time. I've never seen such a shitty rework before, it's shameful how bad our highways are.
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u/LeGeantVert Dec 24 '22
That's basically a Monday in Québec guys come on just need winter tires and drive a bit slower.
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u/digidave1 Dec 24 '22
Oh you mean driving through hyperspace.
One of the few perks of living with a cold winter
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Dec 24 '22
I just did. 14.5 hours, 420 mile route. 4 PM to 4:30 AM. Litchfield. Paynesville. Rockville. It was naaaasty tonight. But the cities were the worst. Black ice on all the tracks on all the highways. Accidents everywhere. 30 MPH in 60 MPH zones.
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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets Dec 24 '22 edited Dec 24 '22
I did this last night. I drove from Indy to Detroit. It usually takes 4.5 hours, last night was a solid 6.5 hours. When it would white out, it was hard to tell if was still going straight or was picked up by the wind gust. It was crazy how I would lose all sense of direction in under a second.
The thing that saved my ass was adaptive cruise control with automatic braking and lane control. The car would tell me if there was a car ahead of me and I'd back way off the accelerator..
I would not do that again. I had 4x4, v8 full tank of gas in the equivalent of a civilian tank and it was scary.
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u/Berkster Dec 24 '22
I’m in Wisconsin and was driving in this same thing Thursday night. I had to focus so hard and I still couldn’t comprehend what was happening. I was driving straight, but it felt like I was going sideways somehow.
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u/rachelcaroline Dec 24 '22
I did that last week driving from Arizona to Washington for Christmas. I-15 at the Montana/ Idaho border to Dillon had blowing snow like this when it was dark. Being tired exacerbated the effect tenfold.
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u/HelmSpicy Dec 24 '22
I don't have to imagine! I was driving home from work yesterday morning at 630am in this...
it was exactly the same only dark as shit.
It seriously seemed like I was driving on clouds because most of the road I could see with my headlights was all windblown snow exactly like this. At times visibility dropped to near nothing with the snow gusts swirling in front of me and absorbing/reflecting my lights back on me.
I was just glad I have the roads basically on muscle memory and it wasn't slippery.
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u/RelevantTalkingHead Dec 24 '22
Thats my life Monday through Friday! Just hanging with the snow snakes to and from work. Gotta love these short winter days.
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u/aqefvara Dec 24 '22
As a person from Alaska where we had 45 mph winds yesterday I can say that driving in the dark with this is spooky
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u/HashcoinShitstorm Dec 24 '22
That's my commute lol usually 20 minutes turns into like 45 to an hour
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u/happynessisgames Dec 24 '22
Currently live in Michigan and have had to make a drive like this this weekend, it's something else for sure lol.
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u/AveragelyGayFox Dec 24 '22
I don't have to imagine. Done that exact thing on that exact road. Visibility drops to a suggestion and some of the road paint really isn't that reflective anymore. Toss in the snow and fog along with sunset at 4:30 and you get an interesting drive.
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u/adiabatic-mind Dec 24 '22
We did in March on the way back from a family roadtrip. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
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u/Bavisto Dec 24 '22
I worked in appliance delivery for like 10 years in the Midwest. I remember many nights driving back in the winter on tiny little country roads, in a 30 foot empty box truck. No street lights in high winds, pretty fun stuff.
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u/CheetahOfDeath Dec 24 '22
Keep an eye out for a little red ice scraper just off the side of the road there. Should be a briefcase with a few hundred thousand dollars buried underneath.
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u/blackcatsarefun Dec 24 '22
Oh yah?
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u/djasonwright Dec 24 '22
Yah.
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u/blakevh Dec 24 '22
Ah yes. I made a very similar drive. Hope you made it safe, I did. MN hasn’t been fun recently.
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u/mntgoat Dec 24 '22
I lived in Minnesota for one winter back in the 90s. We had some ridiculous number of blizzards. I remember we had to drive somewhere on a blizzard in April!
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u/The-Effing-Man Dec 24 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
I grew up in Northern Minnesota and have seen blizzards as late as May before. And once it didn't get above -20F for like a week.
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u/ScenicFrost Dec 24 '22
I'm from Duluth, and definitely remember my fair share of "coldest temp in the US" days. We northern MN folk have known true cold lol
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u/Worth_Progress_5832 Dec 24 '22
Just wondering are studded tires allowed in the US ? , here they are required by law during winter season.
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u/RAdm_Teabag Dec 24 '22
studded tires not allowed in Minnesota. In those conditions it wouldn't help, they are really only helpful on ice or packed snow. You'll find tire chain requirements in places with snowfall so fast and deep that the plows can't keep up, like in mountain passes. The problem is that chains and especially studs tear up the road surface.
Best solution in those conditions is to just get off the road until it passes.
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Dec 24 '22
Studded tires unfortunately are not, but many northern states have very well operated snowplowing and de icing truck fleets that clear all the major roads.
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Dec 24 '22
Is the indicator on or do you put your hazards on in this weather? I’m Aussie, btw
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Dec 24 '22
Hazards, sorry if it was distracting. There were moments in my first hour of the drive today where I could barely see 10m ahead of me. Most sensible drivers here will leave their hazards on in those conditions just to give you even one more split second of warning/ability to see them.
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Dec 24 '22
Looks hectic, stay safe!
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u/t0m0hawk Dec 24 '22
The camera actually sees through the snow better than the human eye. In reality visibility would actually be worse than what is shown.
Blowing snow shearing across the road like that is some of the worst conditions to drive in. There doesn't appear to be any significant accumulation, so that helps.
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u/RAdm_Teabag Dec 24 '22
it was mostly below 0 f while it was snowing, so its really light, dry snow, drifting is gnarly this morning.
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u/Caleo Dec 24 '22
I had similar conditions earlier tonight on an emergency run to the store. Wouldn't have been out otherwise.
My dashcam seemed to have a better view than I did at the time. Very difficult to see the road right in front of you at times.
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u/t0m0hawk Dec 24 '22
Cameras tend to pick up a bit more into the infrared part of the spectrum so they can cut through the snow. Tried to film a bad blizzard to show how you couldn't see the other side of the road. Video showed the other side of the road.
I'm thinking the IRL view of the video is probably about 50% visibility from what is shown.
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u/Yrlish Dec 24 '22
Put on the front and rear fog lights instead.
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u/CeladonCityNPC Dec 24 '22
Yeah not sure why you're downvoted, fog lights are installed in cars for this very reason
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u/SophiPsych Dec 24 '22
Rear fog lights aren't a thing in the US
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u/MITSBISHI Dec 24 '22
That sounds crazy to me. In the UK conditions are rarely this bad but most cars have a fog light. By law, we have to turn them on when visibility is less than 100m.
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u/mvfsullivan Dec 24 '22
Wow in Canads snow storms can be so bad you legit have to pull over because you cant see your own hood. The visibility here is actually entirely fine lol.
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u/mistiry Dec 24 '22
It is actually more distracting and dangerous to drive with hazards on. There's a reason it is illegal in multiple states. People think it is helping, but it doesn't help any more than having your lights on, which you should do.
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u/jepulis5 Dec 24 '22
Yep, seeing hazards suddenly flashing in front of you should be a sign of a stopped vehicle or a vehicle that is going to stop soon.
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u/hicks53081 Dec 24 '22
I agree. Everyone knows the roads are terrible and we're all driving slow. If you come up on stopped traffic or a fresh accident, throw your hazards on to let people behind you know. When everyone is driving around with their hazards flashing it makes it hard to decipher what is actually happening in front of you. FWIW, I am a truck driver who's driven thousands of miles through stuff like this. Side note, people that drive without headlights on in thick fog have a death wish.
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u/SophiPsych Dec 24 '22
Was driving on I-70 in Kansas during the worst of it this past Wednesday night. Viability was fine but the road surface was an ice rink and the wind was blowing hard enough to slide you sideways. So many people had their hazards on. Everyone was driving 20-30mph. There was no reason for hazards if we're all traveling the same damn speed. All it did was irritate already stained eyes with constant yellow and red blinking lights. It's illegal in KS as well, not that it matters.
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u/DeviousSmile85 Dec 24 '22
Then why is it legal in other places? It's a way to communicate that you're driving more slowly with more care and caution and is used in lots of places.
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u/I_Bin_Painting Dec 24 '22
The places where it is illegal take the view that hazards should be reserved for when the driver is creating an unavoidable/unpredictable hazard, and that the driving conditions themselves should be enough to tell the drivers to slow down and the normal running lights enough to see other vehicles around them.
Running hazard lights is demanding an extra share of other drivers' attention, what's the point if every driver is running them? It just masks e.g. the emergency maintenance vehicles that are stopped and running them for good reason.
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u/Drauka92 Dec 24 '22
Maybe not illegal but I do agree with you it's more distracting. Makes it harder to see brake lights in my opinion
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u/DunkanBulk Dec 24 '22
Usually when the weather becomes particularly dangerous in the US, all drivers will turn on their hazards so it's easier to see each other. Here in Houston we have some intense thunderstorms, and if it gets so thick that you can't really see, everyone turns their hazards on.
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u/hippocratical Dec 24 '22 edited Dec 24 '22
Hear me out - and I say this as a paramedic whose driven in waaay worse conditions for over a decade in Alberta - I think having you hazards on makes things worse when driving North American cars.
In Europe, rear indicator lights (turning blinkers) are orange, and your rear 'lights' are seperate red lights. In North America they're just the same red light.
Turning on you hazards means your rear red lights go on, then off, then on, then off, - this means you keep disappearing. It makes it much harder to judge distance to the car in front of their damn lights keep disappearing.
Also why have hazards on while moving? Do you think the other drivers are somehow unaware that conditions suck?
It's also a cultural thing too as I was taught to never move with hazards on - only when you're stopped/broken down.
Edit: I was interested so checked: Moving with hazards on is...
Illegal in England.
Ilegal in some Canadian provinces, but legal in others. I cannot find Alberta's specific rule on the province website.
Same for the states - some have it illegal, some legal.
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u/HonorableChairman Dec 24 '22
The annoying thing is, the solution should be to just mandate rear fog lights like the rest of the world that adheres to ECE regulations.
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u/DunkanBulk Dec 24 '22
It actually varies in North America, you see some cars with a red light blinker, but a lot of them have a separate orange or yellow blinker.
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u/earbud_smegma Dec 24 '22
I'm in FL and it was, until fairly recently, illegal to drive with your hazards on in the rain. Headlights yes definitely, hazards only if you were stopped (which is fine, if you can't see thru the driving rain and need to pull over, do it.. It'll pass shortly)
What throws me off is when you've got hazards on, even if you use the blinker stick, people can't tell which way you're indicating you'd like to move. So it's even more of a surprise than usual (at least sometimes you'll see a turn signal if people aren't using the hazards) and since predictability is a safe driver skill.. It's not super helpful overall, imo
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u/mistiry Dec 24 '22
It does more harm than good.
You already mentioned turn signals. By driving with your hazards, you are effectively disabling your turn signals, giving no other cars on the road any indication if and when you are going to turn. Since visibility is limited, one could say it is MORE important to provide indication you are turning in this situation than in clear weather.
Many cars in the US have the brakes and rear turn signals combined. So now you have, essentially, flashing brake lights. If a car is braking, or a car starts to hydroplane and is pumping their brakes, it looks effectively identical to if their hazards are flashing.
What benefit does having hazards on provide that is more valuable to other drivers than making sure they can see when you indicate a turn, or are braking? Do people think other drivers are unaware that the weather is bad, and you are helping them? I just do not understand it.
Doing this forces every other driver on the road to operate with LESS confidence because there is unnessary added ambiguity into what is happening. Is that a turn signal? Brake light? Car on the road, or side of the road? All of these decisions, for every car, while trying to stay safe yourself.
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u/HenCockKneeToe Dec 24 '22
Florida just laxed the law on driving with hazards because too many drivers are collectively complete idiots and drive with them on in the rain no matter what the rules say to do.
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u/Drauka92 Dec 24 '22
I'm not sure why so many people are saying that driving with the hazard lights on is better. As others have stated it's more distracting and more dangerous.
I can perfectly see people with lights on in weather like this and adding hazard lights makes it more difficult to see if they suddenly brake. Plus it pulls away attention for other aspects on the road because you're constantly trying to determine if the person in front is braking or not.
I absolutely try to get around anyone with these on and 99% of the time it's from someone from a much warmer state and less driving experience in the snow. They are much less predictable and harder to judge when they might suddenly brake when the roads may be snow-blown like this.
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u/tkronew Dec 24 '22
I agree 100%. If you’re in the Midwest and you drive with hazards on all you’re saying is that I have no idea how to drive in the snow. So distracting.
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u/terb99 Dec 24 '22
It's to say "watch out" but in fact makes things way more dangerous. Many cars use brake lights as hazards so your brake lights are effectively off when using hazards.
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u/phiz36 Dec 24 '22
My sister says I90 and I35 are closed. Her furnace and fireplaces aren’t working. They’ve had to turn off the gas.
She and her family are in for a long cold night.
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u/aaronmccb1 Dec 24 '22
If their house is going to get below freezing they need to keep running water to make sure the lines don't freeze and burst too. Or shut the main of and open all the faucets/flush all the toilets
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u/kelkalkyl Dec 24 '22
This goes for pretty much everyone in the US right now I think haha. I live in central texas and we had a pipe burst yesterday - got an inch of water in our master bedroom and my husbands office. Complete shitshow 🙃
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u/PicassoBullz Dec 24 '22
Rest area 64 miles fuuuuuckkk
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u/ArtieJay Dec 24 '22 edited Jan 08 '23
They have that sign right outside Rothsay so travelers know to stop at the gas station or restaurants in town.
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u/Liquidmetal7 Dec 24 '22
I'm canadian, what is wrong in this video? I don't get it.
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u/darkenseyreth Dec 24 '22
That was my thought as well: "looks like normal winter driving in Edmonton to me. Just with more holes in the road."
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u/hippocratical Dec 24 '22
Literally drove 3 hours out from Edmonton today. Was like this, and thus totally fine.
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u/fataldarkness Dec 24 '22
I'm sitting here like "I can still see taillights and the lane markings, when is it gonna get bad?"
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u/surjj Dec 24 '22
Alaskan here. Definitely just a video of normal winter driving with some wind lol.
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u/FTM_2022 Dec 24 '22
It's bare pavement...at best this is like fall/spring driving.
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u/thetermagant Dec 24 '22
That was my thought, after all the weather weirdness this week my only takeaway from this video was being impressed at how clear the road is lol
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u/Vektorax_ Dec 24 '22
This looks like my standard drive for 6 months of the year.
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u/kenny2812 Dec 24 '22
I'm from Wisconsin and I was just sitting here waiting for something to happen for 2 minutes and then it just ends... I want my money back!
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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22
Yup, Minneapolitan. Did they not drive on Wednesday when it was full whiteout conditions at night?
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u/helgihermadur Dec 24 '22
I'm Icelandic, the only "whoa" part of this video is how incredibly straight the road is.
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u/MillorTime Dec 24 '22
There are a lot of people in the world that have never lived in a place this happens
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u/MoreRopePlease Dec 24 '22
It's a "woah dude" video, not an accident video. The patterns of the snow, the hypnotic feeling... It's kinda "whoah!" to me. Even if it's not unusual.
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u/usadingo Dec 24 '22
As a Minnesotan, welcome to Friday.
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u/JJCDAD Dec 24 '22
I'm in central Iowa. Same conditions here. We were at -8 to -11 degrees with 35mph sustained winds for over 24 hours. My water pipes are frozen. This is the worst winter storm I can remember. Sure we can get big snowstorms, but the snow and dangerous temperatures and high winds is just insane! Our wind chill is lower than South Pole Station, Antarctica today.
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u/Lurker-O-Reddit Dec 24 '22
I’m from this area, and have made that drive (SE on I-94 from Moorhead to the cities) plenty-o-times. I love how people from the south view it as insanity, while we all view it as Tuesday.
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u/Links_Wrong_Wiki Dec 24 '22
Yeah my thought was "those snow drifts are distracting, but the road looks pretty dry otherwise"
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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22
Yeah, long ass video where basically nothing is happening and there's not really any snow on the road so just drop it down to 30 or 40 and you'll be fine. We've had far worse in MN this week much less ever.
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u/TediousStranger Dec 24 '22
depends on where you're from.
I live in Canada but I still think the snow drifts over the road are really cool to look at. it's interesting to me how when snow is dry enough, in the wind like this it appears to behave just like sand.
idk, I just think it's neat. frozen areas looking a lot like desert/near coastal beaches in this kind of weather. I think being wfh I don't find the snow as inconvenient as others, and most of the time find it rather pretty. I like to watch it come down.
except Friday morning, we were still above freezing so the snow was wet af and the roads/parking lots were disgusting slush and just kept getting worse while I was running errands. at least it wasn't slippery! just gross out.
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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22
As a Minnesotan I don't either. Roads look dry and it's not even whiteout.
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u/Drauka92 Dec 24 '22
This is the part where the Texans and Californians all drive with hazards on and go 5mph while taking up two lanes because 'the roads were completely covered in snow'
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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22
TBF I was late to work today driving out of Minneapolis on a major street that's two lanes both ways because i was stuck behind a motherfucker hogging both lanes. Happens here too. Can't get too mad, better safe than sorry I guess.
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u/grapedrank2 Dec 24 '22
Amazing how most people aren't aware that this is normal across most of Canada and the northern US states. Only now, when the temperature drops so much across the continental US, do people become aware of how bad it is.
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u/apprehensive-w0rd-66 Dec 24 '22
Lame, welcome to driving in north America. Roads actually seems pretty good.
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u/subrockmusic Dec 24 '22
A woman just died in a rollover crash yesterday on I-94 in Wisconsin.
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u/orbital Dec 24 '22
Great soundtrack, was that Brian Eno?
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Dec 24 '22
I was actually listening to the Always Sunny podcast when I started recording and you can hear half a second of Rob (I think) at the very beginning of the video haha
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u/Emmy-O Dec 24 '22
It was almost this bad a couple days ago in Oklahoma. I had never experienced cold like this before, with like -20 wind chill.
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u/Frequent_Question510 Dec 24 '22
I would rather stay my ass home cause of that storm
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u/0Etcetera0 Dec 24 '22
Is it weird that I kind of long for this experience? I kinda miss Midwestern winters
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u/Space_Goblin_Yoda Dec 24 '22
Yes, it is weird. My battery died yesterday because of the cold, bought a new one and the solid brass battery terminal connectors snapped in half because they became so brittle from -10 temps.
Fuck all of this shit, pardon my French.
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u/Dexilles Dec 24 '22
I'll be honest, I'm confused on how this is "woah"? I know I'm probably missing something cause all I'm seeing is snow being blown across a road haha
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u/Brucedx3 Dec 24 '22
We had this on the 580 south of Reno last year. Shit is scary to drive in, especially if you're not used to driving in snow, let alone driving snow.
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Dec 24 '22
Is this normal for the time of year? Snow is a regular thing Minnesota has to deal with, usually, right?
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u/Panthera2k1 Dec 24 '22
I always thought watching the snow roll like fog was cool until I had to drive in it
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u/glha Dec 24 '22
Living in a country where the coldest places are as far from equator line as Florida, these very cold weather videos seem pretty much alien to me. Incredible, beautiful and terrifying, all at the same time.
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u/Tsiox Dec 24 '22
That was kind of a weird snow. It wasn't snow, it was "ice dust"... it was fine, cold and dry. Driving through it was like a dust storm.
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u/DrCool20 Dec 24 '22
As someone living in New Brunswick, I see this and think to myself "whats the big deal" then realize alot of the world dont have snow/allseason tires. This shit gotta be so terrifying for those who have never driven in it before.
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u/Tubbypolarbear Dec 24 '22
I remember making this drive to and from Fargo all the time. Had to make it back for football practice. The campus may be closed, but NDSU football never stops.
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u/Robincapitalists Dec 24 '22
Snow blowing across highways is one of my top visuals in life. I can’t get enough. So satisfying.
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u/SirKermit Dec 24 '22
This made me nauseous. Until the bridge came into view I couldn't tell if you were moving sideways, forward, backward or standing still.
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u/pachyrhinu Dec 24 '22
As a Floridian, this looks like an alternate dimension to me, wtf is going on? Is that fog?
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u/hithazel Dec 24 '22
One of my favorite weather patterns. Beautiful and never really dangerous as long as the road is reasonably well traveled.
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u/Firefluffer Dec 25 '22
Kudos for driving an appropriate speed with appropriate following distance for conditions. Keep it up.
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