Never. Stop. Under. An. Overpass. During. A. Thunderstorm.
Minnesotans should know better, but apparently not the motorists who decided to stop the flow of traffic and protect their vehicles from hail as storms moved through the Twin Cities on Friday evening.
HEADS UP if you are travelling along I-94 or 694 in the northern Twin Cities metro. There is a lot of hail falling in Corcoran right now with hailstones up to the size of a quarter #mnwxhttps://t.co/imX4Zsg7GQ
— NWS Twin Cities (@NWSTwinCities) June 19, 2026
In fact, drivers made an equally poor decision when they stopped under an overpass on Interstate 35 during a tornado warning around Rush City just a little bit earlier in the evening…