The weather wasn't great Thursday night in northern North Dakota, a rain-snow mix with the temperature hovering at freezing.
Michael Clark, on paternity leave from his job as a Canadian border patrol officer at the Pembina/Emerson Border Crossing, was driving back from a trip to see family and go to a doctor's appointment in Winnipeg.
He and his wife, Tannis, a travel nurse on temporary contract in St. Paul, considered stopping at a hotel in Grand Forks, but the radar to the south looked clear.
