I have come face to face with the real Minnesota weather. The weather I had only heard about. It's downright ugly. We went to town on Thursday for an appointment and when we left the Angle it was sunny and blue skies. Once in town, the snow started up and then the wind. OH THE WIND.
This picture is on the highway between Warroad and Roseau. You can see the blue sky peeking through as it had stopped snowing. But the wind was whipping the snow on the ground around so badly it was creating a white-out effect on the road. There were times we could not see anything. I am never nervous in bad weather with Rick and I am always relaxed when he is driving. But this had my stomach doing flips. Pulling over wasn't even an option due to the risk of being hit by another car coming that can't see you or the road. Then at the height of this blinding white-out, some imbecile in a truck with an enclosed snowmobile trailer was passing all of us. We could barely see the car in front of us and he was speeding around us all with this huge load of a trailer. (If this man is a reader of the blog, do tell me what on earth was so important you were endangering lives, you inconsiderate jackass. For shame!) By the time we got to Roseau, my car door was actually frozen shut. As we were driving home there was a car getting pulled out of the ditch and we were stopped in the road waiting for them, not knowing what cars or trucks would come speeding out of the haze and possibly hit one of us. My husband chose this time to enlighten me about all the ways you can die in the Minnesota winter conditions. It was also around this time I started to reconsider my need to shop at a grocery store. Perhaps living off the land and churning my own butter wouldn't be so bad after all.
My very own stalactites!This is after we had to stop once and kick the ice off the car. It had frozen up so thick between the tire and the fender we could hear it rubbing as we were driving.
Meanwhile in the backseat it was laid back and relaxed. Granola bar and upside-down glasses make for a nice drive.
This picture is on the highway between Warroad and Roseau. You can see the blue sky peeking through as it had stopped snowing. But the wind was whipping the snow on the ground around so badly it was creating a white-out effect on the road. There were times we could not see anything. I am never nervous in bad weather with Rick and I am always relaxed when he is driving. But this had my stomach doing flips. Pulling over wasn't even an option due to the risk of being hit by another car coming that can't see you or the road. Then at the height of this blinding white-out, some imbecile in a truck with an enclosed snowmobile trailer was passing all of us. We could barely see the car in front of us and he was speeding around us all with this huge load of a trailer. (If this man is a reader of the blog, do tell me what on earth was so important you were endangering lives, you inconsiderate jackass. For shame!) By the time we got to Roseau, my car door was actually frozen shut. As we were driving home there was a car getting pulled out of the ditch and we were stopped in the road waiting for them, not knowing what cars or trucks would come speeding out of the haze and possibly hit one of us. My husband chose this time to enlighten me about all the ways you can die in the Minnesota winter conditions. It was also around this time I started to reconsider my need to shop at a grocery store. Perhaps living off the land and churning my own butter wouldn't be so bad after all.
My very own stalactites!This is after we had to stop once and kick the ice off the car. It had frozen up so thick between the tire and the fender we could hear it rubbing as we were driving.
Meanwhile in the backseat it was laid back and relaxed. Granola bar and upside-down glasses make for a nice drive.
Just remember you will never die in MN conditions as long as you have a candle, matches, candy to suck on, and a blanket.....or at least that is what they told us to pack in our winter weather survival kits during driver's Ed......
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