Manitoban laces up hockey skates after freezing rain coats highway with ice
INGLIS, Man. — What does a Manitoba man do when nature coats a rural highway with a thick coat of pristine ice in the middle of winter?
For Wade Eftoda the answer was obvious: put on hockey skates and use the road as a makeshift rink.
Eftoda and his wife Kristyn were slowly driving home Wednesday on Highway 482 near Dropmore when they noticed the road was slick and shiny with ice from a storm of freezing rain the night before.
His wife suggested he lace up his skates and go for a spin on the deserted secondary highway.