This map becomes infinitely more blessed with the lack of the UK in the EU.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's also dangerous as hell to drive along the front range of the Rockies there. It's prone to super high winds and blizzards, so much so that they shut down the interstate at various points when vehicles can't navigate it. This is driving in Wyoming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouizU_s-muk

    Whenever I drive there it's like 50/50 that I feel safe in my small car. It's easy to zone out when there's nothing to look at and the environmental conditions/volume of large trucks makes the non-mountainous areas really sketchy.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, in the YouTube recommended below the linked video there was footage from a 119 car pileup in Wisconsin, with only 1 death from a guy who got out of his car. Wild shit.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Oh, for sure. There is more hazardous geography in a lot of the west, but from what I've seen, the death rate only minimally changes between counties with difficult terrain and those without.