The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota

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[@Chrnan6710]

Currently waiting for the normal people part to end

[@crunchytoast6007]

Same!

[@Lopal12]

same

[@helloworld6469]

🙄 same

[@URL358]

👋 Hello 👋 folks 👋👋 how are you 😊

[@sleedgear]

Same lol

[@chevand8]

It was fascinating for me to hear how Minnesotans handled the border closures. I live near the _other_ end of the 49th Parallel border, in Bellingham, WA, and throughout the pandemic I heard several local news stories about the way it devastated the tourism industry in Point Roberts (which was basically put in the same position as the Northwest Angle, except without even the possibility of an ice bridge). There were points during the pandemic when there was actually a serious discussion about the US ceding Point Roberts to Canada just because it was otherwise completely cut off from any sort of lifelines; for anyone who doesn't know, Point Roberts doesn't have any schools or hospitals, and they rely on crossing the border to get to ones in mainland Washington. I don't think the people living there really liked the idea of switching countries, though-- they have very close cultural ties to Canada, and it was difficult for them not seeing their neighbors across the border for a few years, but most of the town seems to really prefer being on the American side of the line.

[@gibsonmd1]

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

[@daffquess7006]

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

[@clonescope2433]

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

[@chevand8]

@@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).

[@MrSharkFIN]

@@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.

[@DodderingOldMan]

As an Australian who's barely seen snow, let alone a frozen lake, the idea of driving across ice is just... scary as hell.

[@HoennMaster]

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

[@TheRandomSpectator]

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

[@thesuomi8550]

Nothing out of the ordinary 😎

[@Steamrick]

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.

[@mini_bunney]

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...

[@timseguine2]

Can confirm, the ice fishing at Coachella leaves a lot to be desired.

[@sirBrouwer]

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

[@nitehawk86]

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

[@Marylandbrony]

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

[@guardrailbiter]

What if you're fishing for an ice princess?

[@sirBrouwer]

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

[@HoennMaster]

Fun fact: The Northwest Angle allows Minnesota to claim the title of northernmost state in the contiguous US.

[@onesob13]

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

[@iavagabond124]

@@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.

[@onesob13]

@@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

[@iavagabond124]

@@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.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

it's further north than Maine?

[@dreamsickle955]

Releasing this on a day when most Minnesotans are going to be stuck at home is such a power move

[@francisdonlon4360]

Dude actually this storm is insane

[@dreamsickle955]

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

[@reece36565]

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

[@zach-wn6ku]

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.

[@Yay295]

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

[@kylebrown2903]

As a native Minnesotan, I can tell you that if you've never had Walleye, its a delicious fish.

[@Tinil0]

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?

[@lrdxgm]

And what if I had?

[@merrillgeorge1838]

youre not native my guy.

[@ryospeedwagon1456]

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.

[@doughnut9940]

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

[@heistmoney7923]

Fun Fact: In the summer months, you can legally drive a boat all the way up the lake of the woods into Canada legally as its considered international waters. In the winter, frozen ice is considered land so that's why the road was made the way it was.

[@peterjansen592]

WHAT?!? None of this is true.

[@singhadog1185]

As a former resident of Baudette this makes me happy. Thanks! Edit: You don't need to visit the Northwest Angle for the walleye fishing. Baudette or Warroad work just as well. Or any of the resorts..

[@alanask9939]

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

[@kylehondarider]

I grew up in Badger 🙂

[@CatHostage]

As a proud Minnesotan, thanks for telling everyone who didn’t already know about this unique political geography

[@heistmoney7923]

I agree!

[@edwinhuang9244]

0:02 I'm very interested to hear about the lakes in woods with no water.

[@AwesomeBrixx]

"Now if you want to drive to the Angle, you've gotta go through Canada, which is way less cool, but at least gets you an hour of free healthcare" Great line

[@deleted-something]

Lmao

[@tysonplett3328]

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.

[@AlanTheBeast100]

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

[@AwesomeBrixx]

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

[@pepperpillow]

You mean... a fishing line?

[@GreggPerry79]

I don't remember operating a ferry service, but thank you for remembering I'm a real person!

[@keybase8653]

Regarding that "one hour of free health care", :) a person needs to live in a province of Canada for three months with a permanent address before the free health care kicks in. If they move to another province the previous province covers the care until the 3 months are up.

[@gizzyguzzi]

it was a joke

[@johnfloppa9694]

Hell yeah, Minnesota shoutout, I love Minnesota so much. I havent personally fished on the lake of the woods but I hear its pretty good. Most people I know that go on fishing trips go to less remote places like bemidji or millelacs. I especially liked the part about Minnesota. I find it funny that Minneapolis is colder than Moscow.

[@louisliu5638]

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

[@dmitripogosian5084]

Well, Moscow is not particularly cold

[@hasanx8066]

My mouth dropped on this one. This is literal Highway robbery.

[@tonymouannes]

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.

[@googleit1131]

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

[@COPKALA]

But cover the costs of school ???

[@orangeradishneo]

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

[@KevinJDildonik]

Watch the video people.

[@elihemmesch7601]

Hello fellow map nerds

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

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

[@kit9993]

wassup

[@AnDoneCom]

Hi

[@CheeseMasterSports]

What’s good

[@Stardifter21]

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

[@tweter2]

Sam make a video on how in the 1920s they picked up all the buildings in Hibbing MN and moved the town two miles.

[@jonathanbair523]

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

[@kathrynstemler6331]

In the unnamed Canadian province that you’d have to drive through to get to the Northwest Angle, a large network of ice roads are created every winter to access communities otherwise only reachable (more expensively) by air.

[@joeshmoe6566]

If you could map out how costly it is to plow across the US it would mostly follow a pretty straight foward "cheaper in the south and more expensive as you go north" situation, but whats interesting is there would actually be a pretty noticible circle localized around your mom where plowing would become increasingly easier. This would make an interesting subject for a video 🤔

[@gus473]

Ice on Lake of the Woods is usually MUCH thicker than 20 inches, friends. More than 36" is typical by late winter.... 😎✌️

[@vincentgrass6531]

How does it get measured?

[@goon8058]

@@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.

[@kenora101]

I’m on the northern side of lake of the woods and I can confirm, we do have some of the best walleye fishing around! 16,000 people live where I am though instead of the 120 on the American side.

[@HyundaiAccentFanClub]

Certified Kenora moment

[@louisliu5638]

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

[@louisliu5638]

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.

[@SamTaylorsVersion]

What why is there a toll road from Minnesota to... Minnesota I have to watch this video

[@lonestarr1490]

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.)

[@wingracer1614]

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

[@ketchup901]

@@lonestarr1490 It's an ice road.

[@hamentaschen]

"You put the balm on? Who told you to put the balm on? I didn't tell you to put the balm on. Why'd you put the balm on? You haven't even been to see the doctor. If you're gonna put a balm on, let a doctor put a balm on."

[@Nerdydolfin]

“Smaller than Tampa, FL, Vienna, AT, and the Island Nation of Palau COMBINED” I wanna marry whoever writes for this show

[@jacobcolombo3158]

Minnesotan here: in the winter we drive our cars on the ice and in the summer we drive our boats on the water. But in early winter we drive (ram) our boats through the ice.

[@TheHylianBatman]

I thought they had built a whole highway, I was gonna say "Wow, $250 is a large toll". But an ice road being that expensive makes more sense.

[@nlpnt]

There's a third such geographic oddity, the Alburgh Tongue into Lake Champlain in Vermont, on a peninsula connected to Quebec. It's not a practical exclave, though, as it's connected by (permanent concrete-and-steel) bridges not just to mainland Vermont but also to Rouses Point, NY. The main overland route from Burlington, VT to Plattsburgh, NY runs right through the middle of town.

[@enthusia492]

Everything I know about Walleye, I learned from Charlie Berens. And what I learned is "O YAH THEM WALLEYE ARE BITING THIS SEASON, ANYWAY TELL YOUR FOLKS I SAYS HI."

[@DavidFrostbite]

Yo Point Roberts in Washington state has a similar problem - it was created from drawing that 49th parallel line, but no one noticed a little bit of land sticking down. Then during COVID it got completely cut off except by boat.

[@ronclark9724]

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...

[@danielx555]

This reminds me of one of my favorite weird little places in the world, point Roberts in Washington state. It is a tiny little peninsula that sticks down from Canada across the US Canada border, and the only way to travel from point Roberts to any other place in the US is to drive north into Canada and then around or to take a boat or plane. When I lived in Vancouver, I used to go down to point Roberts to do banking and I loved sitting on the beach there. It's so peaceful, so calm, and so isolated. I was recently looking at houses there and dreaming about moving there.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

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

[@rbwapioke]

It should also be noted that the Red Lake Ojibwe hold most of the land in NWA in trust, and that they're relatives of the Lake of the Woods Ojibwe

[@louisliu5638]

All four of my grandparents homesteaded in this area. Ate a lof of walleye, the best fresh water fish. When I flew out of Minn. to International Falls for a wedding just across in Fort Frances, it was a Beechcraft full of walleye fishermen from the UsA and me.

[@shawncharles9980]

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

[@evanchartrand6663]

I grew up in Winnipeg, and would go walleye fishing every year. It was like a 2 hour drive, wasn't that bad.

[@jerseyboyce1]

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

[@tysonplett3328]

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

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

@@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.

[@jerseyboyce1]

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

[@kenora101]

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

[@Nick-Lab]

I know its a joke but there is no free healthcare in Canada for non residents. Its hard enough to get covered outside your own province. It is probably cheaper though

[@AemVR]

🇨🇦🤕🔪👿🚑✚

[@dmitripogosian5084]

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

[@Tortall2012]

As a native Minnesotan, this makes me so hecking proud!

[@dlbma30677]

Hecking is a great word

[@jaivalnagindas8652]

I like your statistics on determining if an area is a good place to live. If there's no cheesecake factory in the city it's probably not the best place to live.

[@mmondt9440]

I'm left with a lot of questions. 1) Why is the road closed forever? 2) From my years watching ice road truckers, the Canadians are driving 18 wheel rigs across the Alberta ice at freeway speed. Is Minnesota too warm 😂.

[@calliarcale]

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.

[@rb239rtr]

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.

[@thomasparker7305]

Ya but you have to wait a year to get that hour of health care. The Canada heath care lines wait time is so bad it would be faster just walking over the lake lol

[@penguino2686]

Watching this in Minnesota while off of school because of a Blizzard.

[@dreamsickle955]

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

[@HeronPoint2021]

All my Minn. Swedes and Norwegians homesteaded in Lake-of-the-Woods and most of my relatives live in the frozen triangle of Winterpeg, Port Arthur/Fort William, and Fort Frances. One owns MOST of FF! Shout out to International Falls!

[@felixsmdt]

Hi Border Nerds! How are you?

[@3Midlo]

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

[@lonestarr1490]

As usual: border-line.

[@platinum6363]

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

[@joedellinger9437]

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.

[@phillipstafford2410]

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

[@orthicon9]

Ice roads are great. I used to drive from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk on the Mackenzie River ice road quite often. That's about a 200 km trip. At night kill the headlights and look up at the aurora.

[@NeardyITGuy]

Whenever big KZbin man mentions my State, Dopamine goes way up

[@jimhalpert9421]

0:23 The statement that something is smaller (!) than X, Y, and Z combined doesn't make too much sense, if you think about it.

[@nimiugn]

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

[@TraceFiveHundred]

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

[@COPKALA]

maths this unknown.

[@GodForHire]

I've from a rural town in Alaska i think you've mentioned about before Bethel. Its on the Kuskokwim. Every winter for decades we've had an ice highway that connects the other villages. You should maybe do a video about that.

[@AndyGneiss]

And I bet that hour of free healthcare could save you more than the $250...

[@alanboyle54]

that little fact at 00:20 doesnt really make sense. or atleast the emphasis on 'combined' doesn't. the way you've phrased it would suit if it were larger than them combined

[@Paul_Lucas]

I feel the goofy Union Flag in the video was included just to piss off vexillologists and tbh I respect it.

[@joeharris3878]

The ice road has been done before. But some years it's more easily done than most. There's a school at Angle Inlet but kids have to go to high school in Warroad. Driving across the lake takes a good while but not as long as going west, south, then east.....hours.

[@QVW]

4:50 shows Wendover, not HAI 😅

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

Has no one asked the US Army Corps of Engineers, the guys who make the impossible, possible, and before lunchtime, for a solution of how bridge the gap? Oh, what a giveaway!!!

[@jonathanbair523]

Got a spare 15K or so to let the play with the idea for a mile or so problem that really only effects a small amount of people compared to the rest of the county or even state.. LOL

[@garyrobbins9197]

Don't put an ad in the middle of the clip without any warning.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

So what you're saying is the Ice Ice Baby is Under Pressure?

[@chevychase3103]

It's also cold as ice

[@Partial_Productions]

As a Minnesotan, honestly instead of giving the NW angle to Canada, just give SE Manitoba to Minnesota, problem solved!

[@fordson51]

In all honesty, I want to know why no one has thought to start a car ferry across the lake. It is the perfect captive market almost guaranteed to make money. As long as it is cheaper than driving the long way.

[@jonathanbair523]

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...

[@cjthebeesknees]

The concept of toll roads is top tier peak humanity tbh.

[@MatthewHill]

It's disgraceful that they ("they" being BOTH the U.S. & Canadian border authorities) didn't make exceptions for exclaves. This never should've been a problem in the first place. It's not like we're at war with Canada or anything like that. What we really need, long-term, is a Shengen-like solution for North America. If the Europeans could figure it out--why can't we?

[@itsJakeee]

As a Minnesotan, I did not know about this. When we went, we did the normal drive through Canada to get to the angle.

[@MyOtherAccount304]

3 of the 4 red diagonals on the Union Jack at 1:12 are thicker than they are supposed to be

[@jasonjazzz5]

Live really close by, and never been to the nw angle. But the fishing is great on the lake. The ridges on the lake are something to see though lol

[@ArchOfWinter]

When they were deciding on the boarders, why didn't they swap an equal size of land that's actually connected to the US like along the coast of that particular Minnesotan lake?

[@dorvinion]

Because government

[@sammartland932]

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.

[@rebeccasys]

Why it's the best walleye is because it's COLD water walleye ;)

[@themeantuber]

"At least gets you an hour of free healthcare" 😂 LoooL Love it!

[@AlanTheBeast100]

OTOH, there are American outfitters who legally bring American anglers into Canadian waters where there are more fish and essentially put the Canadians out of business. (These clients used to drive into Canada). As long as the American boat does not come ashore, but does its fishing and returns to the US, all is legal. Theoretically, this should work both ways (were there a spot Canadians would want to fish in US waters), but HS won't allow it...

[@40below1000]

That sounds like a local courtesy and not policy, or maybe enforcement just isn't insane over there. I lived in the Thousand Islands on Lake Ontario and customs could, would and did board you if you even drifted over the border in a stiff breeze because you were now in the US and were now failing to travel expeditiously to a reporting station, and I bet you don't have a state fishing licence either. You don't have to touch land to cross a border and get into a while lot of trouble

[@AlanTheBeast100]

@@40below1000 Check out related articles on CBC news website.

[@jonathanbair523]

Ice is viewed like land, but water is the gray area as long as you got documentation MN fishing license or Canadian fishing papers .... Just do not touch the shore line in the other country and you should be fine.... Anyways that is how MN and ND was when I fished the Red River when I lived a year or so up in Moorhead Mn next to Fargo ND....

[@freakygiraffe6802]

Sup road/map nerds 👋

[@phillipstafford2410]

Howdy

[@spoot]

Health care isn't free. We all pay for it, it's called taxes, you guys should try it one day.

[@microcolonel]

PSA: Americans do not receive healthcare free of charge in Canada.

[@mariaonamission8719]

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

[@unOoOnu]

​@@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.

[@mariaonamission8719]

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

[@unOoOnu]

​@@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.

[@mlx39996]

@@mariaonamission8719but u dont all pay the same…

[@willmcmill4]

When a video is entirely about minnesota, you see our ego show

[@MilesCallisto]

Yay for HAI

[@Bacopa68]

The people running the siege of Leningrad figured all this out back in the forties. Ice roads kept the city alive.

[@mon6745]

But minnesota is already a white abyss

[@stephengnb]

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

[@Buttercannon]

Any border stans here?

[@iamthefuss934]

No

[@noahjacobs5039]

Just drove to garden island on the northwest angle and back yesterday, although the doesn’t quite make it to the angle, it makes it 36 miles out and some people have plowed their own small road from there.

[@combineecho5831]

I have family that lives up there. We own an island on Lake of the Woods, it’s a pretty nice place to get away from everything.

[@JackReedGaming]

I love being a map person, what about you guys?

[@Lopal12]

yes

[@aeriecat]

yes

[@phillipstafford2410]

It's really fun

[@davyaldy76]

My initial thought upon seeing the angle was, "Why isn't it part of Canada?" Answer: MURICA!

[@doublesteakhouse4475]

Listen people, please don't smoke cr@ck

[@crystalsioux]

Oh crazy I never knew... I grew up in Bemidji, Minnesota....

[@_maxgray]

The ice highway was done more than once, but otherwise, not as bad as videos about Minnesota usually are!

[@xXMrPocketsXx]

People need to stop saying that Canadian healthcare is free. While you don't have to pay for it, you also have to wait sometimes years for urgent surgeries or even just a screening to make sure you don't have cancer. A women whose paraplegic recently needed a chair lift for her house and was denied. They did how ever offer to help "unalive" her so that she wouldn't have to deal with being paraplegic.

[@justinn8410]

Are you Canadian?

[@ShankarSivarajan]

None of that means it isn't free.

[@wingracer1614]

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?

[@purpleduracell]

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

[@joedellinger9437]

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…

[@Seth_Arvila]

If you are going Walleye ice fishing, I don’t think a snowmobile is out of your comfort range

[@jonathanbair523]

The ice houses should fit on a sled to pull behind a snowmobile...

[@paulfromperth5713]

There is no way I’d be driving on ice, no matter how think it is.

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

Wait PCR test costs 100 dollars ? It thought it cost 20 max

[@Kokurorokuko]

0:24 I like the subtle joke here

[@dansands8140]

"An hour of free healthcare". An hour of assisted dying coaching?

[@jbird4478]

After deciding on such borders usually the diplomats of both countries go to a bar together and laugh their asses off at us petty civilians.

[@OmnipresentPotato]

Did no one notice the "making it smaller than Tampa (Florida), Vienna (Austria), and Palau combined"? It's such a ridiculous line and it makes no sense.

[@jtaylor9669]

That is so Minnesota

[@thomasjamison2050]

Wouldn't a train line through Canada with sealed coaches be a lot cheaper? With no stops in Canada it should be a fairly quick ride. And alternatively, they could also use the line for unsealed trains.

[@Powertampa]

Thing I never understand about this. Back when Berlin was split there was a specific highway going right across the gdr to connect to West Berlin, why can't they do the same. Dedicated highway, all fenced in and monitored so no one can just leg it across the border. So ass backwards to not solve these things once and for all, seriously.

[@onesob13]

That road also subjected you to border control at both ends, and anywhere in between, so it's effectively no different

[@igrim4777]

Why should Canada give up some of its sovereign land as a courtesy to the USA since that's what you're demanding. How much rent are you going to be paying and how long before you start to regard it as your land and a right not a courtesy?

[@TheEgg185]

I don't understand how the ice road works. What was actually done to make it a road? It wasn't paved. How was the ice prevented from cracking.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

You need to clear it and perhaps scrape/level in places. And clear after snowfalls. And have a program of monitoring ice thickness and in some cases repairing the cracks, or rerouting the road. When ice is thick, it is pretty strong, you can run loaded 18-wheelers on it

[@iancornish2501]

2:05 Technically the egg is what hatches producing the chicken. So the "Perfect Plan" should be written over the eggshell, not the chicken.

[@quixomega]

Canadian Healthcare isn't free for non-residents, so make sure you buy your travel insurance.

[@DANGMOE]

"if you weren't there when they redrew Arkansas you're TOO YOUNG" lmao

[@stevejohnson3357]

To get the free health care you'll need either an OHIP card or a Manitoba Healthcare Card.

[@TheOwenMajor]

My tax contributions would disagree with the "free" part of that. And the 6 month waiting period to see anyone would disagree with the "health care" part.

[@derekschinke2512]

I never paid for any PCR test I took. Why did people need to pay for it?

[@scottmonfort]

Let's trade the Angle and Robert's Point in exchange for a bit of land near Detroit and something weird thing going on on the eastern seaboard ... plenty of islands to trade on the West also .. and no one hired a Cessna Caravan float plane (optional wheels) to make this short hop to Angle Inlet?

[@Uksrao19]

Has anyone noticed the title error?

[@onesob13]

Mmmmmm walleye