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Well, we could have died for the chance, but we got to be on KARE 11 for about 5 seconds during a piece about how bad the roads were.
We stopped at Cabela’s in Owatonna where they had closed the road going southbound on I35 and there was a news crew.

Click here for video documentation of us risking our lives. After an intro, there is a brief pause in the video and then the segment with us begins.

The drive back from Texas was pretty smooth until we hit blizzard conditions in northern Iowa. The wind was insane. The car heater had a hard time keeping up because cold air was being forced through the door handles and door frames. Visibility was reasonable until we hit spots without windbreaks. Then it was terrifying.

Near the cities, for added excitement, the cruise control got frozen out of its mind and took over the entire car. This meant that even if we leaned on the brakes, the car thought it should be going 65 miles per hour and revved the engine higher. That made stopping in front of our house kind of dicey. Kate accomplished that maneuver by throwing it into park and killing the whining, bucking engine in a cloud of smoke. We plan on using that car again only when we are in a BIG HURRY.

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