Terrified Driver Faces One of America's Scariest Bridges During a Snowstorm 

I always like sticking my head out the window and looking down through the metal grates over the water

Agreed. I finally drove across for the first time last year and it was a pleasant drive. It did help that both times were picture perfect August days.

@@ya_boi_zach5140 try walking over those grates on Labor Day!

Agreed I love driving over it

Pub intended? Lol

He did some Xanax before crossing

Exactly

I’m in Antarctica and it’s about 10-18 feet of snow

That is the reporter hyping it a bit. They always have to make it sound worse than it is. And the snow will very seldom accumulate significantly on the bridge, the wind blows it off.

@@AdventurousF8 you cannot be serious

same in new england

Just take your time in bad weather

My dad helped build the bridge. 😊😊😊

It's still a remarkable bridge!

My grandfather did too!!! Awesome! :)

My cousin was part of the crew that built it. I’m proud to be his family.

+Waye Braver I mean the region they were in had the most snowfall in 2014/2015...

Because they're 300 feet up. Snow can't pile on the Bridge. Blizzards up there mean 60 mph winds, 10 ft waves, -20°F, 4 ft of snow. so it's not just "light snow".

I also live in Michigan and have been over the bridge, and lived through a lot of Michigan snowstorms. I'll verify "The Flight Crew"'s facts.

I also live in Michigan. Blizzard??? HA looks like flurries to me. That was funny to watch.

I dont find it any scarier than any where else in a blizzard but that was not a blizzard !

Omg same. Mine is also getting worse. And my bridge fear is fairly new unfortunately. Very crippling

every summer I go to visit my dad's family and there is even a family reunion each time!

Been there for a day trip....never stayed there...stayed in Aloha.

i did for my grandpas 80 year marriage

Fxlcon RBLX yep just got back 3 weeks ago

Jordan yep, about to stay at the grand hotel for a week. I’ve been doing it since 2004.

You come from the future year of 20017. How does the coronavirus end?

Haha

I guess in 20017 everything would be dangerous!

But IT isn't, this bridge is a little over 8000 m and the bridge you're talking about is nearly 7000 m long

Camilla Nyberg Problem, I don't use metric. I'm going by imperial. Not only that, The Chesapeake also has elevated roads on both ends of the bridge which adds to the length you have to travel to get across.

+mindlessgonzo The Mackinac Bridge is just a few feet short of 5 miles actually. It is longer then the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. And it's not only the length of the bridge that gets people. It sways and shifts in the wind. At it's highest point you are 295 feet above the water, which means it's over 100 feet HIGHER then the Chesapeake Bay Bridge as well!

OMG I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Lol I don't usually see youtubers in videos that aren't their and because i get this chance I would like to say i love your voice.

No, the Mackinac Bridge is the real thing. It's five miles over the Great Lakes, the cold churning Great Lakes, it is a MFER.

Same. I’m wanting to go up to Pictured Rocks. But I’ll be taking the Wisconsin way.

That’s very very unlikely tho yugo were terrible made cars plus super light compared to most cars

Forgive me if I'm mistaken but wasn't the 89 accident deemed later to be an intentional suicide after investigation?

@@MagikarpSharp On March 2, 1997, Richard Alan Daraban drove a 1996 Ford Bronco over the edge; it was later determined to be a suicide.

My mom, was friends with somebody close to that situation. It was very sad

@@MagikarpSharp Nope, that was a guy in a pickup truck about 10 years later. Pluhar was seen speeding during a high-wind event, apparently lost control and bounced off the "hump" in the center, came back across both lanes, and up onto the rail, where she sat teeter-tottering on the railing for a moment before the wind tilted her that last inch too far, and down she went.

Yeah .... exactly. I have driven over Big Mac probably 200 times in my life, only a couple times was I even slightly nervous. I actually enjoy driving across in *moderately* stormy weather. Stay within the lower speed limits for bad weather (20 mph), pay attention, don't get distracted by others in the car (or the scenery), don't make sudden jerky movements on the wheel or the brakes and you're fine. If a real storm blows up with 40+ mph winds, visibility way down, they shut the bridge down. That's why god invented cell phones, call whoever is waiting for you on the other side and tell them you will be a couple hours late.

That beautiful bridge does love to swing in the wind, doesn't it?

@@user-tq1tf6hh9w Not much really. The designer waaaaay over engineered it and thankfully Michigan and the Feds played for it generously. It's supposed to take 150 MPH winds and last for 1000 years. This is one of the most well built bridges in the nation.

🤣😂🤣😂😆😁

Also, having lived in Michigan all of my life, I know better than to go farther north than Ludington in the winter. ;)

J Ochs me to

J Ochs yeah, summer...

A Yugo qualifies as a car?

Yes Menominee , grew up there!

Rob Namowicz safe from what?

Lynn Kabke She over exaggerated & if she is the most terrified they should have used someone more confident lol 🍗 💩

I'm with her. I don't know what's worse though, riding with someone else or doing it myself. In this case it's someone who's trained so I'd definitely go with this option

Just crossed over it for the the first time, bf had a major panic attack going across on the way to Mackinaw so I had to do on the way home, was shocked cause he's one of the bravest guys I know

Lynn Kabke anyone with common sense should have a little respect for these kind of bridges

Ah, so Lynn is another Yooper who has no problem coming to us Trolls when she needs something.. Hmmmmmm?

100InchHammer The Mackinac Bridge has strong wind gusts and icy concrete and the bridge sways in the wind so I understand her fear

Can't drive then don't. simple. Amazing someone has a job driving people across a bridge. Why is there unemployment when stupid jobs like this have to be made for inadequate people?

The bridge barely "sways" enough to even be perceptible to humans. The car itself will be buffeted back and forth by wind and dingbats think that is the whole bridge swaying. The bridge does move -- the center span can move like 18 feet to one side or the other in heavy winds -- but the span is 3800 feet long so the movement is only an inch or so per second, minor compared if you're getting hit from the side by 40 mph wind blasts.

Try driving a semi in hazardous conditions then you can talk

It's only when she's in a bridge some people have a fear of that I do

Lucky you live in Michigan I was born there I've been on this bridge many times