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Walleyehunter38

By Walleyehunter38
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To all who travel north, the roads up here are HORRIBLE!!!!! The New Years mess we got left the roads in the worst possible condition and will remain that way until we get a nice warm up with a lot of sunshine (which is far from happening).

Yeah this is no joke. Friday my wife was on her way to work and tried to stop at the end of our road going slow and trying to stop in plenty of time and slid right out onto Highway 73 and into the back of a semi. She slid across the southbound lane and hit the semi going north at the back of his trailer. Another few seconds later and she could have missed him but she always wears her seatbelt and walked away sore but fine. The picture doesn't look as bad as it was, behind the hood the pillar for the roof is heavily gouged. The metal on the rock crusher the semi was hauling took out the grill, radiator, fuse box, wiring harness, hood, fender, pillar, and driver's side window. Both airbags deployed. Stopped the vehicle dead in the road on the spot but lucky this little jeep kept her on the inside bucked in but more importantly head level metal objects were kept on the outside of the vehicle.

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Highway 73 = Ice all up and down from Moose lake to Floodwood and I'm sure farther but I've traveled this section.

Highway 210 from 35 by Carlton all the way to Brainerd is iced up all over.

Went from McGregor to Alexandria and every 2 lane highway we were on was iced up horribly bad. It's hard frozen down ice that makes your tires hum when you drive on it and gives you that sick feeling of hoping you don't have to make any sudden stops from any speed.

p.s. The tires on the jeep - 3 weeks old.

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I'm glad everyone's ok, did your dad have have insurance on the house? And will it cover everything, including items inside? I wear my seat belt all the time- except when I get to the ice. I take it off, and roll windows down normally, The truck goes thru- I am getting out!!!

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