From my news feed this morning:
“Hundreds of crashes, spinouts as heavy snow impacts Minnesota travel”
Adam Uren, Bring Me The News (November 26, 2025)“…Among those off the road is this driver in west-central Minnesota, who decided a blizzard is the perfect time to start hauling a fishing boat….”
[emphasis mine]
I don’t know who made that decision, or why. But I’m glad it wasn’t me.
Seriously, Though
I’m just glad that, from the looks of it, the fishing boat hauler’s trip ended without serious injury. And, so far, I haven’t learned of anyone getting killed in this storm.
That Bring Me The News article passed along numbers for storm-related accidents from the Minnesota State Patrol, as of 6:00 a.m. today:
- 253 Reported crashes
- 30 Resulting in injuries
- 333 Vehicles off the road
- 30 jackknifed semis
- 11 Spinouts
The 30 jackknifed semitrailer trucks include the ones piled up Tuesday afternoon on I-94, about 20 minutes this side of the Minnesota-North Dakota border.
The tangle kept westbound lanes closed for about five hours, I gather. I-94 westbound was finally clear around 9:00 p.m.
It’s easy enough for me to laugh at that someone deciding that hauling a boat in a blizzard is a good idea: and getting the predictable reality check.
I’m in my mid-70s, have lived in this part of the world most of my life, have had my reminders about cause and effect: and learned from many of them. Now that I’ve said that, it sounds like ‘famous last words’, so maybe I’d better stop writing.
More about weather, situational awareness, and stuff that can go wrong:
- “Heat, Wind, Dry Leaves: The Rest of the Story”
(October 11, 2025)
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