How does this quote unsettle readers?

Question

By the time I came to the strip malls and factories a few miles south of Barrie it was dark and I was in the middle of a full blizzard, peering through a white fog of snow at the tail lights of the cars in front of me. The wind howled across the highway, pushing curtains of thick flakes, picking up snow and fields and banks on the west side of the road and stirring it into the storm, producing a white-out. Driving in the white-out was like creeping along the bottom of a sea of milky water that was constantly swirling and buffering the van, reducing visibility to zero” (“Bell).

Answer 1

I was thinking that the quotation unsettles the readers because they will be eager to know what will happen next, they’ll want to know if Garnet will get into a car crash, but does this quotation explanation of the quote unsettle the readers?

Answer 2

T, I think you're right:

I was thinking that the quotation unsettles the readers because they will be eager to know what will happen next, they’ll want to know if Garnet will get into a car crash

Answer 3

Is this the same as it being scary?

Answer 4

Yes