As I was driving home from work in a snowstorm last night. I found myself sliding sideway down the freeway in my car. I tried to steer into it. Then the car pivoted, and I tried to correct it the other direction. I saw the wall, a barrier that divide the north and southbound traffic racing towards me. By some miracle, as we slid toward the barrier, the car seemed to grab the snow and we were able to slow down and avoid a collision with the barrier. It was terrifying for a brief moment followed up by many sighs of relief.
Tag: snow
A Bitter Cold Blessing
Let me expound. It was between 1 AM and 2 AM. It is 25 degrees outside. He was barefoot, in a t-shirt, and outside his wide-open bedroom window. He was stuck outside our locked house. I snowed 2 inches the night before. I asked him to climb back in. He couldn’t. He asked to be let in the front door. I walked out the front door. He was stuck standing on his tiptoes on top of the hose reel while clinging to his widow seal, which again was too high for him to climb through. As I let him in, I asked what he was thinking. Why did he do that? He said he was thirsty and wanted to get snow to eat for water