Bad Weather
Comments(1)I just had a very interesting experience on the way to work. It has been snowing all night long and put down a few inches of snow. The highways weren’t good but I figured that I could still get to work just fine, and I didn’t have any points to use to call off either way. I was almost there and going the speed limit on the highway when I tried to change lanes back into the right lane and my back wheels hit a patch of slushy snow. I fish tailed and went off the road. I didn’t hurt, or hit, anything, but I had to call off work (my boss gave me a vacation day considering the circumstances). I managed to drive my car back around enough to be only about 10 feet from the highway and got stuck on ice. I had my mom bring my wife out and attempt to help me out, but before she got there five cars, one cop, and a tow truck had stopped to help me. I told the cars to go on, and the cop insisted on staying until my mom got there to make sure that we could push the car out. The tow truck showed up only about a minute before my mom, so my wife just paid him the $50 to tow me out onto the highway. I was expecting the cop to give me a ticket for failure to control vehicle, but I was just about 200 feet from the city limits so he had no jurisdiction. Judging by my skid marks on the highway I was only about 10 feet from hitting the city limits sign and a few others right next to it. I guess I have a lot to be thankful for today.
