The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
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As an Australian who's barely seen snow, let alone a frozen lake, the idea of driving across ice is just... scary as hell.
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...
Currently waiting for the normal people part to end
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Same lol
Fun fact: The Northwest Angle allows Minnesota to claim the title of northernmost state in the contiguous US.
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?
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.
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.
Can confirm, the ice fishing at Coachella leaves a lot to be desired.
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.
Releasing this on a day when most Minnesotans are going to be stuck at home is such a power move
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.
"Making it smaller than three larger places...COMBINED". I love this channel.
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.
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.
As a native Minnesotan, I can tell you that if you've never had Walleye, its a delicious fish.
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!
I don't remember operating a ferry service, but thank you for remembering I'm a real person!
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..
I worked at Wigwan Resort (then known as Wigwam Lodge) the summer of 1995
I grew up in Badger 🙂
0:02 I'm very interested to hear about the lakes in woods with no water.
"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
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 grew up in western Canada and the 49th parallel is the only shape and location of the border. So visiting the Northwest Angle from Manitoba by driving EAST into the USA was wild. Also wild was driving 7 minutes into Minnesota and then stopping at a phone booth to phone in to US Customs (and likewise, calling Canadian Customs when leaving).
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.
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.
My scandinavian grandparents left Rousseau County, Mn. and walked to homestead in Canada in this area, probably because Minn. WASN'T COLD ENOUGH.
As a proud Minnesotan, thanks for telling everyone who didn’t already know about this unique political geography
I agree!
The period when you had to pay for a test not more than 72 hours before travelling was a huge hassle for the entire length of the border. In my home state of Maine, there are communities which are effectively split across the border, with extended families living on both sides. In many cases, people couldn't see their family members for going on two years. It also crashed the economies of several border towns that depended on cross-border traffic.
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If you're a country boy from Minnesota, driving on a frozen lake is almost like a rite of passage... AND a lot of fun doing cookies... until Dad finds out!
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 :)
My mouth dropped on this one. This is literal Highway robbery.
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.
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.
The first year of that road, the breakup in spring ruined our cabin. Deal with tourists all winter then in spring we have a leveled building from the ice pack. Thanks. That was cool.
Shout out to Gregg for helping as much as he can.
Good Guy Gregg
Graphics and editing of this video were outstanding! Really loved the guy ice fishing at Coachella.
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.
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.
This is a great video -- very well-crafted and carefully done, and even more entertaining than usual.
OMG I've been waiting for somebody to cover the Northwest Angle for years!
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.
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.
Ice on Lake of the Woods is usually MUCH thicker than 20 inches, friends. More than 36" is typical by late winter.... 😎✌️
Sam make a video on how in the 1920s they picked up all the buildings in Hibbing MN and moved the town two miles.
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
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.
I live in Minneapolis but whenever I go north I just end up sticking to the cliffs of the north shore on Superior, I should check out Lake of the Woods some time
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.
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...
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 🤔
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.
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.
I like the Minnesota videos
It’s kinda crazy how many there are
@@weareafteryou3975 I like them because I'm from Minnesota
I still have memories of being 5-6 years old in the back seat of my dad’s sedan, scared as hell, as he drove out onto Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. To this day I still can’t get him to give a good reason as to why he found that fun or a good idea.
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...
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.
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.
Haha, my grandparents had a fishery on Rainy Lake as well, which is the lake closest to Fort Frances.
I'm from Minnesota, and I always wanted to go to The Lake of the Woods.
This would be the best application ever for a hovercraft. Bonus: you can still use it when the ice melts.
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.
I feel like Minnesota is the Northern Florida. Minnesota town: "The borders closed? Ok well drive across the frozen lake!" Florida keys: " you want to set up a check point along the only way in and out of the keys? Ok, were forming the conch republic....."
What why is there a toll road from Minnesota to... Minnesota I have to watch this video
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.
"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."
I was stationed in Baudette while in the USCG. Best fishing ever. Learned the attraction of a ice fishing shack.
Don't drop the keys! lol
Minnesota resident here.
Personally, I love our top hat. Great addition to our state.
Watching this in Minnesota while off of school because of a Blizzard.
Here I am getting ready for work bc gambler's gonna gamble
“Making it smaller than these three things combined”. I see what you did there.
been to northwest angle many times and to many bars around there on moose lake, jerry’s, sunshine and more! awesome snowmobile ride considering i’m from winnipeg
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."
Hi Border Nerds! How are you?
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
Wow, I can't believe they were doing this. There were many people (250) who live there that didn't have access to roads during the pandemic.
Edit: Saying this because usually you want to connect territory of a country that Is on the other side of a lake 🤦♂️
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.
This north to south border at the northwest angle is also the border between the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario further north...
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
Now I can pretend I'm an ice road trucker
I grew up in Winnipeg, and would go walleye fishing every year. It was like a 2 hour drive, wasn't that bad.
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.
@@mehere8299 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.
“Smaller than Tampa, FL, Vienna, AT, and the Island Nation of Palau COMBINED” I wanna marry whoever writes for this show
As a Minnesotan, I did not know about this. When we went, we did the normal drive through Canada to get to the angle.
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 😂.
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.
And I bet that hour of free healthcare could save you more than the $250...
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
How they dealt with resonance problems? During war, many trucks going to Leningrad fell under ice because of sound resonance which had the ice breaking. Are there restrictions by minimal and maximal weight or speed?
When you drive over the ice, it pushes down on the water making a wave. If you over take that wave then it can weaken the ice and you go in..... It has been over 20 years so the ice thickness is a bit fuzzy for me now, but I think a snowmobile/3 or 4 wheel atv needs like a foot of ice maybe foot and half of ice to hold the weight of the snowmobile....A foot is about 1/3 of a meter so bit under half a meter of ice...
Aaaand then there's Point Roberts, WA, which has no access other than double border crossing (they actually had to spin up a once-a-week emergency ferry in 2020), and Canadia deemed it "not essential" for people that lived there to be able to get to the rest of the state, so they were literally landlocked (and for those that don't have recent smartphones to install the stupid ArriveCAN app, still _are_ because the border guards often refuse to accept paper printouts from the website). Aren't exclaves fun!
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
wait what?! a 100+ dollar PCR test?
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".
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!
Can't wait for Jet lag season 5!
I live in (and grew up in) Minnesota and I didn’t know why that little bit stuck off the top, or the fact that there was a lake in the way.
Why did they never teach us these things?
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 .
The concept of toll roads is top tier peak humanity tbh.
One really curious border anomaly is on Victoria Island between NWT and Nunavut. It looks like the former claimed a piece of the latter but I have no idea why. I checked Google Earth and I can't find any buildings or anything so maybe it was also a survey error? I'd love to find out.
As a native Minnesotan, this makes me so hecking proud!
Hecking is a great word
Canada and USA should negotiate an Enclave Act Agreement. Remove the border checkpoints on both sides and give the American residents the right to live in their enclave and have available services to them from Canada including schools. This would be applicable to residents of Point Roberts and NW Angle. Give Canadians the right also to enter the enclaves without questioning them at the border crossings. Even live there if they want to.
Wouldn't it be cheaper, cooler and probably safer to offer helicopter rides across the lake?
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..
3 of the 4 red diagonals on the Union Jack at 1:12 are thicker than they are supposed to be
I'm surprised the MN part of lake of the woods doesn't normally have an ice road. Every winter (except maybe this current, very warm winter) there's a whole network of ice roads on the Canadian side of the lake. It's the exact same climate in the MN part of the lake so not sure why it wouldn't work??
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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.
This video is a masterpiece!
As a Minnesotan, honestly instead of giving the NW angle to Canada, just give SE Manitoba to Minnesota, problem solved!
Any fellow Minnesotans here?
you betcha
Oh sure
U betcha
Is that all Minnesotans say? "You betcha"
@@reddsees Oh sure, you betcha
Great vid but why is your audio volume so low compared to add and other channels?
could you do one about that 600 mile stretch of coast from Alaska cutting Canada of from the beach.
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.
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.
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It's really fun
Manitoba needs to conquer this tiny landmass and take it for themselves once and for all.
LOL another war with the USA? Granted UK beat us bad in 1812....
i love this channel.
But minnesota is already a white abyss
That's why we have Betty Whiteout and her friends like Plowy McPlowface to make it less of a white abyss.
Any border stans here?
No
Point Roberts in Washington state had a similar issue. You should do a video about that too!
Whenever big TH-cam man mentions my State, Dopamine goes way up
Listen people, please don't smoke cr@ck
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.
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…
Coolest piece of history in 2021!
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.
Oh crazy I never knew... I grew up in Bemidji, Minnesota....
can someone tell me the song of the background music? 2:28
Before I realized it was about the highway, I thought this video was going to explain why the Northwest Corner makes sense. Not why it exists, why it actually makes sense. But that's not really defensible beyond the moderate upheaval that would be caused by making everyone who lives there choose between getting out and becoming Canadian.
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.