The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota 

I’ve lived in Minnesota my entire life and there is no way in hell I’m driving on ice. 😂

As a Minnesotan who is just learning about this, yes.

Nothing out of the ordinary 😎

Look up cars and winters in extremely cold regions like Siberia. There are corners of the world where through the entire winter, people don't shut off their engines because if they do, the car won't start again it gets warmer in spring.

to be fair, as someone who is surrounded by snow and ice for more than half of the year, driving across Australia also sounds scary as hell! First of all, my car doesn't have AC, and second, I don't want to suddenly find a giant extremely venomous snake slithering out from underneath the gas pedal or something D: also, what if I get caught in the crossfire between Mad Max and some random bandit clan? eh, I guess we all get used to our own local dangers, frozen lakes and snowstorms versus snakes and Thunderdomes...

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Same lol

L'Etoile du Nord (Minnesota is also the only state with a French motto)

@@onesob13 Minnesota is a pretty interesting state tbh. And it's neighbor state Iowa has a French named capital city (Des Moines) and it's flag is also France but with the state seal and motto over it.

@@iavagabond124 I've been meaning to spend some time in Des Moines, maybe compare your State Fair to ours. Seems like a decent town from what I've heard. I'm from Washington State originally, and you might find it funny to learn how Washingtonians pronounced their own City of Des Moines near Seattle. Not Deh Moin as you do, but Deh Moinz pronouncing that second 'S' haha

@@onesob13 that is interesting, Ive been in Iowa all my life and it's a great state. Des Moines is a beautiful city, everytime I go in the summer I love to relax at the Asian gardens by the river at sunset then sit out at the capital building looking over the city at night, is a great experience.

it's further north than Maine?

Wonder if Hyder, Alaska had the same issues - it's pretty small town.

But if they don't have ice they can run a ferry all year long?

What's really interesting about Point Roberts is it has several marinas and the San Juan Islands and surrounding Mainland have several Ferry services so I wonder why they didn't either establish one at point Roberts as a temporary solution or why Point Roberts in the first place does not have a ferry

@@clonescope2433 - You are correct about the ferry services. There are plenty of ferries around here-- to the San Juan Islands, from one side of Puget Sound to the other, and even the south end of the Alaska Marine Highway. And yes, ultimately during the pandemic when there was no other option, an emergency ferry service _was_ instated temporarily for residents of Point Roberts. However, there seems to be insufficient demand to justify the cost of operating a permanent ferry. Point Roberts is a pretty small community, and even once they had a way to physically get to the rest of the state, it didn't fix the larger problem that their local economy is almost completely dependent on Canadian tourism (which wasn't happening at all during the border shutdown).

@@clonescope2433 It did actually have an emergency ferry when the border was closed. It wasn't regular, though, as you had to make a reservation ahead of time. I think it was mostly just for essential trips like going to the hospital etc.

Dude actually this storm is insane

@Francis Donlon I'm just a little up 35 from the cities don't seem so bad here tbh

@@francisdonlon4360 It's not terrible, but guess we'll see how tomorrow pans out. Definitely a lot of snow.

overexaggerated storm for sure, i do snow removal and really not bad didnt seem like as much snow as the totals say but the drifting got old fast.

For future reference: Minnesota got about a foot of snow on February 23, 2023.

I believe he was just trying to apply similar "logic" as to how the US managed to grab that piece of land to start with. Logically speaking both Point Roberts and the Northwest Angle should be part of Canada but I admit I am slightly biased on this (non)issue.

Am I the only one who does NOT understand this at all?

@@wolfgabriel It's a meta joke or anti meme or whatever you would call it. It refers to how often documentaries and such measure or emphasize the size of something by saying it is bigger than X (big, well-known thing/place) and Y (other big, well-known thing/place) combined. In this case, the "comedic" effect is that none of the pretty randomly chosen places actually matter, as a single one of them is bigger than the Northwest Angle. It's just funny nonsense.

@@wolfgabrielIt’s humor for smart people.

@@kfibcudwiefjw7428it’s creative and funny, but this type of humor isn’t particularly intelligent

what do you mean. it's really easy. go to a gas station open the box labeled Ice. drop your fishing net and start scooping. you might need to pay for it but you now have caught yourself some Coachella based ice

I bet there are a lot of anglers in the Angle.

Can confirm, no ice at Coachella so i resorted to fishing Fish from the tacos.

What if you're fishing for an ice princess?

@@guardrailbiter they would destroy your moral for ever thinking about it. All the while not showing any emotion at all.

To be fair, people from the south will insist that Catfish is a delicious fish and they are completely wrong and presumably either being held hostage by the catfish mafia or have never experienced real tasty fish. Is Walleye just another catfish?

And what if I had?

youre not native my guy.

Can confirm, Walleye is pretty fucking good. I actually stayed at a cabin on the shore of Lake of the Woods for a week years ago. It was lovely. Walleye makes for a mean fish fry, but I’d personally argue Perch is a bit better tasting, and is fished up in the same area.

@@Tinil0 can confirm as a Minnesotan walleye is great!

Lmao

The problem is, it doesn't. If you're not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, you need to pay or have travel insurance. It's the same with literally any country.

Good luck with that if you don't have a Manitoba issued health ins. card (whatever it's called there)

@@tysonplett3328 Yeah, I know. It's just a funny line in the video.

You mean... a fishing line?

I agree!

I worked at Wigwan Resort (then known as Wigwam Lodge) the summer of 1995

I grew up in Badger 🙂

I really don't see a reason for such strict border control between the US and Canada. Instead of all that phoning in and out, one would expect something more in the lines of the Schengen agreement in Europe, where you get to keep your own borders, your own countries and your own national identity, but there are no border checks between countries.

You had to use a phone booth?! What? You don't have a cellphone? 🤣🤣

@@themeantuber The answer is firearms.

Canada doesn't want the immigrants the USA is getting across their southern border, many are crossing into the USA to find nothing so are continuing more north. so it's really there to vette them. They even closed down most immigration last summer, against many canadian's wishes@@themeantuber

@@JH-wd6dp Nah the answer is the Patriot Act and other means of restricting citizens.

it was a joke

My scandinavian grandparents left Rousseau County, Mn. and walked to homestead in Canada in this area, probably because Minn. WASN'T COLD ENOUGH.

Well, Moscow is not particularly cold

Back in the day we had a 1/2 mile oval racetrack that was used for car racing and motorcycle racing. 3 inch spikes on the tires on the ol' Honda 250, a snowmobile suit and helmet and who cares what the temperature was! And yes, I have two sons so I did indeed pass it on.

I remember doing donuts on a four wheeler on the ice. Very fun times

@@fourkingjackace7889 my cousin won all the time, his new japanese wife made him quit. he now owns a huge chunk of Fort Frances.!!!

did it at night with dad in a 53 Pontiac. I thought that tank was going to go threw the ice!!

For us cities kids, it's one of the greatest joys of going Up North for holidays too :)

COVID restrictions will go down as some of the most absurd and ridiculous decisions in global political history. Future historians will not look kindly upon people like Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Gavin Newsom, etc.

Have you seen the map men YT channel? youtube.com/@JayForeman It is fantastic.

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Man it sure is weird that people need to go through canada just to get there and now people who live there have special privileges

Did you watch the video? That's not even a real road. I thought the same as you when I saw the title. But after watching the video it made sense.

Mother nature did, indeed, rob that highway of its existence

But cover the costs of school ???

Only robbers here are Americans lol. It’s clearly Canadian land, but the stubborn Americans don’t want to have a better citizenship

Watch the video people.

Oh yes from the mine swallowing the town... That would be a interesting vid that not allot of folks would know about... Or the Minnesota Mountain range...Fort Snelling being one of the oldest fort too. I think she was made 1825-1830

Good Guy Gregg

Then you, sir, are a nerd. But that's cool cuz so is everyone else. I named my sons after Wolverine, Professor X, and the god of war. We all have our thing.

It’s kinda crazy how many there are

@@weareafteryou3975 I like them because I'm from Minnesota

How does it get measured?

@@vincentgrass6531 Likely with an ice auger, drill an 8" or larger diameter hole take a tape measure and hook it on the bottom lip of the ice take the measurement at the top.

Never question the motivation of a man willing to drive on a frozen lake for no discernable reason.

You never will get a good reason because there simply isn't one. He might have thought "I want to do it for fun", he might have wanted you to have an experience you might otherwise never have had, he might have wanted you to learn you could drive on ice in an emergency. The first is absolutely selfish, the second would have been okay if you hadn't been terrified but as you were scared to death it was stupid, and the last was stupid too since not only were you so scared that you probably don't want to try to this day and even if you needed to you'd be very reluctant to try. Terrifying your daughter so she thinks she's going to fall into the frozen lake and drown to death is not okay. You might just have to tell him "Dad you scared the life out of me" without asking for a reason and if he's learned some wisdom in the past few years he might be wise enough to say "I'm sorry, that was a stupid thing to do". Maybe if mum is still around you might to have to tell her and she can later prompt him like "Ellie was talking about the time you... If she asks you about it again I think you should just say you're sorry" since sometimes mums can be good at that sort of thing.

Was he a fan of fishing? I know I always wanted to go ice fishing but my dad's knees hurt to much so we never went...

Certified Kenora moment

@@HyundaiAccentFanClub Kenora is the home of the RCMP bomb squad I met during the 2010 Olympics. Ah, Kenora. All my relations.

Fun fact: BOTH Pt. Roberts and this area had the US motivated as having a "finger" into that lake (or Boundary Bay) gives FISHING RIGHTS to the USa.

Just hire Tom Scott to serve drinks in the on-board bar, and I'm there.

Turns out, it's not even a road! (If by "road" you're thinking of something that was actually build in one way or another instead of just marked in the landscape.)

@@lonestarr1490 You mean waterscape maybe? There is no LANDscape

@@lonestarr1490 It's an ice road.

And high school kids from Point Roberts are driven through Canada to Blaine to high school and back every day

Well, if you consider 250 many. By some standards, that is many. By population standards, that barely qualifies as a settlement.

Buy a snowmobile and cruise over the frozen lake at 100 mph.

They could boat across the lake in the summer. Not completely isolated

That border is just plain dumb ! Should just give it back to Canada!

@@dubious6718 It's only frozen over in the middle of winter.

The 49th Parallel was chosen as a compromise and wasn't properly surveyed before. Especially Point Roberts. Never-the-less Canada got what it wanted most, Vancouver Island and the mouth of the Fraser River with access via the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the USA got what it wanted most, Puget Sound and access via the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The 48th or 50th Parallel would not have pleased either...

Haha, my grandparents had a fishery on Rainy Lake as well, which is the lake closest to Fort Frances.

Wow that went over my head lol it sounds so natural wtf

Why are there people watching HAI who do not understand the concept of humor?

maths this unknown.

its all perspective, within a 2 hour drive i probably have more than 400 fishing lakes nevermind rivers and streams.

Lake Winnipeg has some good walleye. I find March is the best time to catch them.

@@jerseyboyce1 So does Evan. Manitoba is literally ice fishing paradise; I’d be surprised if there weren't a few good locations within the city limits alone, let alone on any of the 43 squintillion lakes that make up the bulk of the province.

@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co so two hours is a bit of a drive then.

@@jerseyboyce1 I mean it’s not that far of a drive. I do it regularly to go to Winnipeg for shopping.

Well, all ice roads do melt eventually, even in Alberta. There is summer in these places. ;-) In the summer, the water taxis were viable transportation. There was talk of rebuilding the ice road the next winter, but the pandemic border crossing restrictions were lifted, and that meant it had competition from a much cheaper way of getting around. Sure, you have to go through border control twice, but you don't have to pay anything to do that.

Most winter roads are on land- with river and lake crossings at various spots. you cannot drive freeway speeds on ice, a loaded truck starts building a pressure wave in the ice, the truck can breakthrough and go to the bottom. In northern Ontario, ice roads open usually in mid-January when the river and lake crossings are thick enough. I think ice road truckers is shot in the Northwest territories, not Alberta.

Hecking is a great word

Oh, just feeling a little called out by a video intro

As usual: border-line.

I’m glad we’re having a meeting though. Maybe Joe and Justin should have one and give it back to Canada

At one point the residents were asking to be given to Canada because Canada was trying to block access to some of their fishing spots. The US threatened to stop letting a Canadian railroad cut through a bit of the US South of the lake. Both backed down. The status quo resumed.

Doing great, trying to figure out how the border of thousand islands was decided which island was on which side

Here I am getting ready for work bc gambler's gonna gamble

Its not enclaves that are the problem. Its governments. No rational reason for any of the nonsense they put us through, but that goes double for small cases like Point Roberts and the Northwest Angle. Government doesn't need rational reasons for the things it does

You could give it to Canada long time ago :)

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Every time I went to a doctor in BC (with minor things) my Alberta health card worked just fine. It would probably be difficult to get specialist care in BC, if not going through emergency

Don't drop the keys! lol

LOL another war with the USA? Granted UK beat us bad in 1812....

Depending on the scale and speed it's being processed at and actual costs of the materials it's possible that price point isn't entirely unreasonable. When done at small scale and a priority on rapid results that could increase the cost for sure, no idea how it was over there but here in my country there were periods where it took 48 hours or longer to get test results back through normal channels at one point. Such a delay would probably disqualify them for the mostly pointless border control when internal spread already dominated. I'm not familiar at all with actual cost of both wages and materials, not here and definitely not in North America but that's one more thing I want to find out now. What our public health sector actually ended up paying to get those free at point of care tests done. And since it's for travel to a foreign country that by default political logic is possibly deemed "non-essential" paying for it presumably isn't going to be funded through the public health logistics? This isn't the first strange border causing problems I've read about during covid trouble. Here in the Netherlands we've had interesting times in towns near the border that based on an old treaty are very strangely distributed. Baarle-Nassau (Dutch part) and Baarle-Hertog (Belgian part) come to mind, basically the whole area is inside the normal Dutch borders. But then there are Belgian enclaves of a couple of houses/streets inside that town, inside some of them are Dutch enclaves again. Some shops even got the border lines going through them, so formally you'd have different rules depending on where in the building you were. The rules for how many people are allowed to visit, requirements of masks in public spaces, shops being allowed to be open varied as well in both countries. I suspect many of those rules were conveniently ignored but it'd certainly be annoying if you're required by law to be closed as a belgian store while your neighbours on both sides are open for business or the hurried employee payment compensation legislation not being available for employees that "live in another country".

It’s also not free for us Canadians. We pay for it through taxation.

​@@mariaonamission8719 "free" as in you aren't going to skip meals for it. "free" as in mostly paid for by those more fortunate than yourself.

@@unOoOnu excuse me? We all pay for it through taxation in Canada. All of us.

​@@mariaonamission8719as I just said it's "free" as in you aren't going to skip meals so your kid can live. I never said anything about a fairy making medical equipment and workers poof from thin air.

@@mariaonamission8719but u dont all pay the same…

Midwesterners - genuinely nice until we’re given a reason not to be and become completely psychotic 😂

Choppers have problems in cold and snow too.

@@KevinJDildonik Choppers and small planes also have wight limits what they can hold before they are to heavy to take off... I think like 1,200 pounds.... But ya flying is risky.. I seen a show about how Black hawk pilots doing medivac missions in Iraq and Afghanistan would get black out from all the dust they kicked up, so I would think snow would react like that too..

Idk I live in and grew up in Minnesota and I remember learning about the parallel in school

CRT (Canadian Relationship Theory) is illegal to teach in achools

I lived in Minn for the first 21 years of my life, and I knew about it... Then again I wanted to go there with my dad, but we never got past Brainered and Pine City area for are trips "up north" from St.Paul .

Howdy

you betcha

Oh sure

U betcha

Is that all Minnesotans say? "You betcha"

@@reddsees Oh sure, you betcha

That's why we have Betty Whiteout and her friends like Plowy McPlowface to make it less of a white abyss.

No

Are you Canadian?

None of that means it isn't free.

Nothings perfect. What would you prefer, healthcare you have to wait for or healthcare you either can't afford to get at all or that buries you under a debt you can never repay, turning you into a wage slave for the rest of your life?

You can still have to wait years for urgent surgery in the US due to not enough Drs.

Yes, that story made the BBC! US healthcare can be the best in the world…. IF you have good insurance and choose to take care of yourself by using that insurance to get all the recommended screenings. And if you live in an area with enough doctors. A lot of if’s. Houston Texas has an insane number of hospitals…

yes

yes

It's really fun

Because government

IIRC part of the lake was "under" the legend or the title or an inset or some other thing on the map, so they didn't realize there'd be an jog in the border.

Not sure the shore line has the deep water for it... Most lakes I was fishing on as a kid (30 years ago)in Minn needed about 10 feet to get 10-20 feet deep.. So you would need to build a landing dock into the water or dig into the lake... I can see that being tied up with allot of red tape from all the hoops you would need to jump threw...