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Anyone know the conditions of the roads north of Brandon around the Minnedosa, rapid city, rivers area as of this morning?  
I know yesterday only 10 was closed till the afternoon but the roads were bad enough that people stayed home. It was still snowing last night and noticed that highway 16 was closed almost to Minnedosa again last night.  
They cancelled school I the Rolling river school division due to road conditions today but didn't know if it's just because of rural bus students.  
I work earlier than MB 511 and the radio updates people so I thought I would ask before heading out and getting myself in a jam somewhere.

The Manitoba Road conditions are updated 24/7. According to the site 10 North is snow packed and had fair visibility with swirling snow. Updated this morning at 05:30am.

My husband drove from Rivers to Brandon taking number 25 (snow covered but doable) and number 10 (very icy). He said number 270 looked terrible as he drove by it so don’t venture on that road. This was around 7 am on Tuesday.

Not plowed at all, snow packed and slow going to Shilo.

Took 3.5 hours to get home from Dauphin starting at 6pm last night.  
Roads should have remained closed IMO as saw 4 cars in the ditch.  
Poor visibility through the park with parks of uncleared highway.  
Out of the park hard iced road with over blowed snow that pulls your car to the ditch but firm hands on wheel and foot off gas pedal can get ya threw this. This point a car passed me saw it in the ditch later on.  
Some parts were partially clear roads where the banks and trees protected the road .  
Go super slow near Minnedosa ice ice ice!  
Especially on the hills!  
 
If you like adventure put some tunes on and drive safe.

I came out to Rivers today from Brandon via 270.  
 
The entire stretch is ice covered, and from the CN line to hwy 25 was down to 1 set of tracks through the snowbanks. 2 cars were stuck, 1 was abandoned.  
 
Hwy 25 west was quite snow covered, eastbound looked a bit better.

West of Brandon awful ice ice ice

Road is plowed!  
But covered in ice!

Is still ice covered but starting to melt. Go slow.

as of 1pm. Hwy #1, down to one lane in a lot of places, around Elie was bad, JJ's all thru the Carberry Hills was one lane, very rutted, slushy and difficult to drive. Be careful, drive for the conditions...that means you Semi drivers as well, stop trying to force people to make dangerous choices because you are impatient.

I think it is unbelievable that our 1 main highway across the country cannot be plowed, salted and be safe for travel. It is bad enough that there are traffic lights, 3 or 4 changes in speed limit and now after just one storm this season, is still unsafe for travel.