Man Drives Fanboat on North Texas' Icy Roads

An adventurous Texan decided to take his fanboat on the ice-covered road of North Texas. Earlier this week, a winter storm swept across the state of Texas. According to the Dallas Morning News, North Texas got an inch and a half of sleet on Tuesday and freezing rain on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity, and thousands of flights have been canceled. Texas’ roads are also in a state of disarray, with plenty of roads impassable by car.

Man in fanboat cruises down the road during North Texas ice storm

Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth received footage of someone making the best of the awful road conditions, though. A man was spotted driving a fanboat down a rural road in Princeton, Texas, about 45 miles northeast of Dallas. The watercraft intended for swamps, marshes and other shallow bodies of water seemingly had no issue skimming atop the icy surface. It made quicker work of the roads than most cars, anyway.

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