A post-Christmas ice storm closed roads, knocked out power across North Dakota and Minnesota. On boxing day, the ice settled in and 24 hours later, I decided to make the trek our from 808 to 6572. The drive is roughly 8 hours and 2 minutes, 554 miles. This time, it took about 10 and some change. But, you’ll see why I had to keep stopping…
Elgin, ND 12/27/23 | approx. 11:33 a.m.
In southwest ND, the roads were slick and then slushy. The grass crunched as ice broke in fragments under my feet. The sun was shining so intensely that it looked as if the trees were made of glass and would shatter from a medium sized wind.
I’m only slightly obsessed with bokeh.
And I meant to keep going but around Jamestown, by the Bloom exit, something strange began to happen in the sky and I pulled over three separate times. (Always on an exit ramp, safety first.)
The whole land was coated in a half inch or more in ice and it was impossible to describe. Luckily, I prefer visuals.
