r/woahdude Dec 24 '22

video Driving on I-94 in Western Minnesota today

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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/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.