Ref the USAF, we used to live in Minot & wife & I just had a discussion as to how many cars there would be in the ditch between MAFB and Minot during this storm.
Same applied to the oil boom, we once watched a truck pass us on ice, lost control, did a few loop-de-loops, then slid into the ditch and overturned.
Or better yet, with ditches level with snow, truckers would drive directly into them thinking a road was there.
I think Minot AFB and GFAFB were almost the same distance from town. The city of GF was about 15 miles away and after a big storm my wife and I would drive to town and count the "dead bugs" (vehicles upside down) in the median. Most of them were four wheel drives. Most people don't understand the laws of physics apply to four wheelers as well as two wheelers.
Not long after I got there and was still a Second Lieutenant on Crew we had a massive blizzard. The on-duty crews had been out in the capsules for two days and around 10am they sent out the relief crews. My crew was going to A-0, the furthest LCF and the two crews for B-0, E-0 and D-0 got behind me. I was the only northerner so they had me drive lead. US-2 was not bad but as we turned north the Route 1 (Lakota) the snow was two to three feet. I used the Suburban as a snow plow and made it to A-0 after six hours of driving. The other crews dropped off as they got to the roads needed to get to their LCFs. The E-0 crew got stuck not long after they turned off.