Dashcam footage of I-10 wire strike  

Agreed....Low vis flying is only possible when you are intimately familar with the obstactles on your route and you speed is low enough that you do not out fly your visibility.  That might mean quite literally flying at a walking pace, tree top to tree top waiting for an opening so you can set down and wait it out.  As long as you do not give up visual reference to the ground you will not lose control and familarity with terrain you will not hit anything.  Most of us here are in the EMS sector where our GOM has us on the ground long before the wx get this bad and if you came to EMS after flight instuction and then tours to get up your hours then you really didnt have a reason to be out in those conditions either.  

Charter side of things, especially if you were doing 91 work or the 135 you worked at did not have high wx minimums in the GOM then you can find yourself in the potential for those situation.  Our mins were 300' and 1/2 day, 500' and 1 at night.  The common routes that were flown you would have training and expected to know all hazards along the route.  Bad wx days the newer pilots would go out with the more experienced to see what things look like.  If you only get a chance to fly around with greater than 10 miles vis the first time you see 4 miles can be an awakening even though perfectly fine and legal. Now you wouldnt launch at minimums on a flight but sometime you would utilize them to finish the flight, but only after extensive training and only if you absolutely knew it could be done safely. 

For utility guys out there, its this but just up another notch.  Owner of my flight school was a 30 year utility guy, many lessons learned from him on how not to kill yourself in wx and that includes knowing when you need to just land it and wait it out.  

Flying for MTC now day is 1000 and 3 and night 1500 and 5.  Needless to say I'm turning down flights long before it become a comfort or safety issue which is the exactly the idea they were going for.  The lessons learned from previous ventures make this an easy enviorment to operate in.  For others if you get caught out in the soup and you are all by yourself and its the first time experiencing anything like it then its probably going to scare the ** out of you and it can be deadly.  

The idea is you have to known when to call it quits and either divert, turn around or land where you are.  You do not want to go poking around in an area that you do not known like that back of your hand.  If you do you need to do so at a speed that allows you see anything that comes out of the merky soup ahead of you, analysis it and avoid it and none of that should be happening with any speed, there should be no quick reactions required.  60kts is 1 nm a minute, if you only have 1/2nm vis than that is 30 seconds approaching an object, if its worse than that, keep going slower.  In unfamilar areas or a much safer for everyone regardless of experience level is if you drop 30 knots off your cruising speed due to visibility than its time to divert, turn around or land.  Doing 120 and you have to drop to 90 to feel comfortable? Call it quits.