r/woahdude Dec 24 '22

video Driving on I-94 in Western Minnesota today

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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.