Probably the last major winter storm of the season.
Another winter storm hits the middle of Minnesota around the city of Saint Cloud where the heavy wet snow started to fall just after 4:00 p.m. and turning the roads to slush covered in a matter of minutes.
Shot Description
Clips 1-3 Vehicle in the ditch at Interstate 94 and Highway 15.
Clips 4-6 Snow plow on Interstate 94.
Clips 7-8 POV Snow plow coming towards the camera on Highway 15.
Clip 9 Semi truck on Interstate 94.
Clip 10 POV passing a crash on Interstate 94.
Clips 11-12 Overlooking Interstate 94 and traffic in the heavy snow.
Clip 13 Driving in the snow POV shot on Interstate 94.
Clip 14 POV snow plow on coming.
Clips 15-16 Snow falling with trees in the back ground.
Another powerful winter system is hitting Minnesota and causing chaos on the roads. Footage shot on Interstate 94 between Monticello and Clearwater, MN of the numerous wrecks on the interstate.
Shot Description
Clip 1 Vehicle in the ditch
Clip 2 Sign warning of crashes ahead
Clip 3 POV Driving in heavy snow
Clip 4 – 6 Passing a wreck on the interstate where a vehicle re-ended a semi truck
Clip 7 Passing car in the ditch
Clip 8 Car in the ditch with tow truck
Clip 9 Passing car in the ditch with tow truck
Clip 10 Passing car in the ditch
Clip 11 Passing car in the ditch
Clip 12 Passing car in the ditch with tow truck
Clip 13-14 Signs warning of crashes ahead
Clip 15 Passing several vehicles and Semi in the ditch
Clip 16 Flag in snow
Clip 17 Overhead shot of slow moving traffic on Interstate 94
For the few that have found this site while making the huge overhaul, I’m still working on the site move, it has not been forgotten about. Right now I’m down to about 410 pages that need to get moved over. Then I need to go back over all the stuff I never posted over the years and THEN it should be ready.
The last few weeks have been crazy busy with the record breaking snow here in Minnesota. So we go from nothing to OMG rush Rush RUSH!!!!
So back to work for me here, going to try and knock down a few hundred more pages by Monday.
Today I was back out in the crazy winter weather around Saint Cloud, MN.
Another powerful winter storm hit central Minnesota and just in the Saint Cloud, MN metro area where dozens of wrecks were reported just around the noon hour as another half foot of snow blanketed the area.
Video has lots of wrecks, cars, trucks and semi along with snow plows and people just stuck in the ditches.
Not even back for a day from ChaserCon and the weather keep’s hitting in central Minnesota. I was not even out for a few minutes when I came upon this wreck by Clearwater, MN.
Footage from Interstate 94 in Wright County where the roads became ice covered and extremely hazardous to drive on. Footage of numerous wrecks including a roll over where the driver walked away unharmed.
Clip 1 State Patrol responding to a wreck with lights and sirens.
Clip 2 Car in the ditch broadside and on top of the snow.
Clip 3 Truck on the side that rolled over.
Clip 4 Snow plow.
Clip 5 – 6 Roll over from different POV.
Clip 7 Two people stuck in the center ditch.
Clip 8 Snow plows passing the wide angle side camera.
Clip 9 Passing wrecks with side camera shot.
Clip 10 Same scene as clip 9 but from front dash camera.
Clip 11 POV Snow plow on Interstate 94 coming towards the camera.
Clip 12 Long clip of bad roads and then vehicles in the ditch.
Clip 13 Car in the ditch with tow truck trying to recover.
Clip 14 Truck in the ditch in the center cables.
Clip 15 Stopped and backed up traffic due to all the crashes.
Clip 16 Vehicle in the ditch and crash with pickup and semi truck.
Just driving back from ChaserCon in Wichita, KS and into the next brutal winter storm that is hitting the Twin Cities metro area.
After the snow came the very slick roads around the Twin Cities metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN. Dozens of wrecks were reported the late evening all over the metro area. Footage show in Hennepin County on the northwest side of the metro area.
Shot Description
Clip 1 Crash on Interstate 694/94.
Clip 2 Crash on Interstate 94.
Clip 3 Crash on Highway 62 and France Avenue.
Clip 4 Road Block due to wrecks on Highway 100 and France Avenue.
Clip 5-7 Crash on Highway 100 and Minnetonka BLVD
Clip 8-9 MNDot Truck “DUMPING” a lot of treatment on the road way due to the extremely slippery conditions on the road. Location 494 Maple Grove
Clip 10 MNDot Plows blocking Highway 100 due to crashes and slick conditions.
Clip 11 Crash on Highway 100 that was a roll over.
Footage from the horrible road conditions in Wright County from Clearwater to Albertville with the bulk of the footage shot around Monticello, MN on Interstate 94.
I did get a “Unicorn” something that does not or should not exist or happen. Roads are so bad that even the Minnesota State Troopers are getting stuck trying to respond to all the crashes.
A winter storm warning is now in effect for the Saint Cloud, MN metro area just to the northwest west of the Twin Cities Metro where already a half a foot of snow or just shy of 16CM has fallen since midnight.
Shot Description
Clip 1 Dash camera of near wreck right in front of me where I had to act quick to avoid the crash scene.
Clip 2 Crash scene on Interstate 94
Clip 3 Shot of ruler in the snow with V.O. saying that just over six inches of snow has fallen since Midnight.
Clip 4 Side shot passing snow plow on interstate 94.
Clip 5 Snow plow on County Road 75.
Clip 6 Passing one of the many spin outs on the side of the road on interstate 94.
Clip 7 Driving past crash scene with trooper trying to walk in the snow.
Video from earlier today of untreated or summer blend diesel fuel freezing pretty much solid.
Time-Lapse Of non treated summer blend diesel fuel that is meant for use only in warmer climates and it freezes up into a wax like substance within two hours at -10F or -23C temperatures.
The fuel was stored at 74F (23C) just prior to this experiment to show what happens inside the fuel system of the vehicles with untreated diesel fuel if they drive from warmer weather and into the extreme arctic sub zero polar vortex conditions that have impacted a large portion of Canada and the United States this week.
Experiment to show why so much of the commercial traffic has been delayed due to the cold weather.
Shot Description
One long clip from a two hour long video that is edited into three parts that starts out in real time showing the diesel fuel is liquid and free flowing.
Then a time-lapse starts at about 20 seconds after the timer starts or at 37 seconds into the video and continues to about one minute and fifty five seconds into the video where you see the diesel fuel thicken up and gel up.
Then the last part of the video is in real time that shows the diesel fuel is pretty much solid and what it would look like in a fuel tank or fuel system such as a vehicles fuel filter.