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Wow! I can’t believe how fast those people were driving! No way in those conditions could they stop.

You can drive fast in snow but you have to be sure you can see up the road, there are no turns, and there are no places someone could turn out in front of you.

can’t believe how fast those people were driving!

In 2010 I had to drive across Minnesota in order to see my mother at Mayo Clinic down in Rochester...she was in very serious condition.

I was trying to stay ahead of a blizzard. Rented a room in Fargo at 7 pm (I had come from Idaho) hoping for a few hours sleep. Checked out at 10 pm as the wind was picking up.

For some hours I was alone on the Interstate. That was weird enough. Then at four or five in the morning I hit the outskirts of Minneapolis and soon found myself in the middle of trucks, cars, you name it, all going 70 mph in about 50 feet of visibility.

I couldn't see the roadside or the centerline. I couldn't stop, couldn't slow down, at times I was in total whiteout, gripping the wheel so hard my arms ached. Couldn't really see anything but the taillights just ahead of me and the headlights in my back window.

I was praying out loud and cursing the lunatic drivers in alternate breaths.

At a certain point the traffic vanished almost as quickly as it had appeared. I drove through a seemingly deserted Minneapolis, snow a foot high in the roadways, no one around.

I made it to the highway into Rochester just before they closed the roads down. I was as fortunate as could be.

It was the night the Humphrey Dome collapsed.