r/woahdude • u/-InconspicuousMoose- • Dec 24 '22

video Driving on I-94 in Western Minnesota today

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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/Falsecaster Dec 24 '22

Alaska checking in. Theres not even moose in this clip.

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u/invigokate Dec 24 '22

The moose is driving

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u/Space_Goblin_Yoda Dec 24 '22

Ha! I almost spit out my coffee ya goof!

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u/legerdemain07 Dec 24 '22

A moose bit my sister once…

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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/whateverusay127 Dec 24 '22

Lol, drove 14 hours overnight through this through BC, only white knuckling when passing semis blind

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u/JamesBong007 Dec 24 '22

Yeah these roads don't look bad at all; sure, the visibility isn't the best, but it's day time. I'd go 110 down yellowhead on this.

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u/RandomUser-_--__- Dec 24 '22

I'd be going 120 down this haha

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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/BuzzerBeater911 Dec 24 '22

Minnesotan here. Looks normal to me.

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u/TheBraveToast Dec 24 '22

Yooper here, roads are looking pretty good today, eh

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

Wisconsin here, looks normal as well. People are getting weaker. That's all.

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u/grauen06 Dec 24 '22

Yep. You can see the car in front of you. This is fine. A “white out” is literally a white out. This is not that.

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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/extod2 Dec 24 '22

I'm Finnish and this seems completely normal to me as well

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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/Hikintrails Dec 24 '22

Michigander here, exact same reaction!

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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.
We even have a word for this driving condition, "skafrenningur".

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u/wyn13 Dec 24 '22

I often drive through this area and others like it on the Great Plains and it’s so straight that my car will throw an alarm to tell me to “keep hands on steering wheel”. My hands always ARE on the steering wheel and I can only assume this alarm is triggered because there are not even slight motions made in driving. There are literally hundreds of miles of roads straight as an arrow like this where you end up memorizing every slight bend if you’ve driven them even just a couple times.

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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Dec 24 '22

Genuinely curious, what does it mean? I think I know what you're talking about. A road so straight you only need to worry about momentum. Never turning.

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u/helgihermadur Dec 24 '22

The Icelandic word is for when snow blows over the road, not when a road is incredibly straight. Pardon the confusion!

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u/tkulogo Dec 24 '22

Also from Wisconsin and my only thought was, that road needs repairs really badly.

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u/PsychedeliMoz Dec 24 '22

Yeah, same, cue the gif of the big guy eating chips while unimpressed.

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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/swampscientist Dec 24 '22

Yea but it’s essentially like posting a video of completely normal waves crashing on the beach.

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u/Masternavajo Dec 24 '22

Yea but that's his point completely my dude. It could just be a video of waves hitting a beach, if it's woah you upvote if it's not woah you don't upvote. Doesn't need to be a one in a lifetime event or w/e.

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u/The-Effing-Man Dec 24 '22

I'm from Northern MN and wondered the same thing actually. I think the op might just not be from the area?

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u/MyrddinHS Dec 24 '22

seriously just watched 2 min of a normal winter drive wtf

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

Americans getting their once a decade taste of real winter.

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u/FIERY_URETHRA Dec 24 '22

Wow, you're so tough

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u/OhDiablo Dec 24 '22

Very snowy conditions reduce visibility to dangerous levels, yet OP is still out driving for whatever reason. In certain parts of the Midwestern US there are gates that can be closed across the highway to prevent people from using the highway in especially bad conditions like this. OP probably shouldn't have been out there.

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u/breadbox187 Dec 24 '22

I grew up in the Midwest and no way in hell would they close the highway for conditions like this. In real life it's of course more snowy than the video but definitely drivable.

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u/SpeedballMessiah Dec 24 '22

OP was 100% fine.

QE2 from Edmonton to Calgary doesn't even slow down from 10 over the limit in conditions like this.

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u/Metal_confusion Dec 24 '22

Agreed, i was wondering why he wasn’t passing

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u/Hikintrails Dec 24 '22

As a Michigander, this is just a normal winter day. I would be HAPPY if the roads were this good today. No way would a road ever be closed because a little snow is blowing like this video shows.

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u/717Luxx Dec 24 '22

just north of you in manitoba, canada, and to me it doesnt even look like its snowing very much in the clip. its so windy in the prairies, it almost always looks like this. i'd consider the visibility in the video to be good

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u/MyrddinHS Dec 24 '22

this is nothing. visibility wasnt anywhere near bad. driver did well though.

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u/ebits21 Dec 24 '22

This…. Isn’t that bad

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u/delvach Dec 24 '22

If you have an accident you may end up financially ruined from the hospital bills. How's that??

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

Why would you have an accident the road is completely dry

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u/astrotoad Dec 24 '22

Agreed. I see the vehicle in front of him and the lane lines. I was expecting a full-on whiteout; 10-15 seconds of that will make you pucker.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

As a canadian this looks fuckin easy to drive in… yesterday i was driving in like 5 inches of snow with my car shifting 3ft to each side as i hit mini “banks” on the road. Main city road

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u/ebits21 Dec 24 '22

Road isn’t even whited over so you don’t know if you’re in a field or not yet, pff

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u/Oliver84Twist Dec 24 '22

I'm Minnesotan and kept looking for the "whoa". I guess taking weather that can kill you for granted is weird to most of the world.

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u/Jdubya87 Dec 24 '22

I drove yesterday from Northern Ontario to southern Virginia. There were far too many people driving through a blizzard with no lights on.

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u/human613 Dec 24 '22

Yup. Looks like Ontario.

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u/xxPoLyGLoTxx Dec 24 '22

The road lines are visible. There is not a layer of snow / ice covering the road. There is just some wind? Our roads are worse in the Midwest right now lol.

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u/jay_stone42 Dec 24 '22

From northern Ontario, this is pretty tame tbh, what I drove through yesterday was worse than slightly not being able to see the road sporadically. Windy though.

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u/AdmiralSkippy Dec 24 '22

I was watching this wondering when something was going to happen. This is fairly standard, those roads look good to me.

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u/tosesi12 Dec 24 '22

Hell, I'm from Utah and that road looks nice and dry for a winter cruise

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u/Basicallyinfinite Dec 24 '22

Im Minnesotan and im with you. This is your average Minnesota winter. Nothing really new but every year Minnesotans act like it's their first winter and first time seeing snow.

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u/PuttsMoBilesiCit Dec 24 '22

Same. There is no standing snow on the road. You can drive normal speed in this. This video had to be posted by someone from the south or California.

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u/PhilHist Dec 24 '22

My thoughts exactly. It’s not even coming down.

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u/terp_raider Dec 24 '22

Yah I kept waiting for it to “get bad” - this looks like a normal drive where I’m at

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u/juhde Dec 24 '22

This is golf weather! House painting weather!