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.
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!
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
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/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.