If you needed a reminder that winter doesn’t care about your plans, Michigan just delivered it in the most dramatic way possible.
On Monday, January 19, a massive chain-reaction crash on I-196 in West Michigan involved 100+ vehicles, including a bunch of semi trucks, after whiteout, near-zero visibility conditions basically hit “shuffle” on everyone’s stopping distance. The good news: no deaths have been reported. The bad news: multiple people were injured and that stretch of highway turned into a frozen, twisted game of bumper cars that nobody signed up for.
The highway ended up shut down for hours while crews worked to clear everything out, and drivers who were stuck out there were bused to a local high school to warm up and get help. (Which, honestly, is the most Midwest sentence ever: “Yeah, we had a 100-car pileup… anyway, head to the high school.”)
So here’s your friendly Wisconsin neighbor PSA: if you’re driving anywhere in this kind of weather, you can’t “main character” your way through physics.
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