Vol Fan was traveling in the right-hand lane with a semi beside him in the left-hand lane when a car came down the on ramp. The driver was busy talking to (and looking at his passenger) and he never glanced up to see the oncoming traffic. Vol Fan attempted to speed up to avoid collision but it didn't work. The car missed hitting the vehicle that Vol Fan was driving but not the trailer he was pulling.
Thankfully, Vol Fan was able to maintain control of his vehicle and didn't end up under the semi that was beside him! We lost a fender, mangled a tire, and had a pretty good dent but we were safe and that was the main thing.
As we were on the side of the interstate speaking to the policeman that had just arrived, we were watching a storm that had been forming to our southwest. It was beautiful and scary at the same time. As it approached, it produced a beautiful rainbow.
Just as we were admiring the rainbow, the officer called "Hail! Take cover!!" and we all scrambled to reach the relative safety of our vehicles. At first, it was pea-sized then golfball size started mixing in. And then some tennis ball size mixed in! It was very scary! Thankfully, we didn't have any glass breakage in the vehicles but we do have some dents!
Crazy how big these things are! And this was after 10 minutes of rain and a good 10-15 minutes of tire changing so they had melted quite a bit.
After this, we decided that our luck had run out for the day and that we were stopping at the next exit that had a hotel. Wow, what a day!
Yikes!
ReplyDeleteThe first Saturday was definitely more pleasant. I'm glad you weren't hurt by either the accident or the hail!
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