Bill P. (Semilivemusic) and I decided to take a trip to Lufkin, TX too see Don Patterson and play with some of his toys, including Audya 4, today. We had a great visit, stopped for supper and headed home.
I'm driving along at 60 MPH on a highway outside Carthage, TX. Road is clear ahead except for a car coming in the other lane.
Seemingly out of nowhere a huge section of a tree fell directly into our path. It hit the road seconds before I hit it. Couldn't swerve because of the car coming, but probably didn't have time anyway. We emerged from the other side with no damage to either of us, but quite a bit to the car. I thought Bill was going to have a heart attack or at the least mess his pants.
We called 911 and then tried to slow other traffic as the tree covered at least half the road.
They sent Deputies, a Highway Patrol car and a guy to saw up the tree and clear the road.
Two nice girls were in a car right behind us and stopped to offer help. (I think Bill got their phone numbers). Anyway the car was able to run o.k., the THP officer said the tree was at fault, not us., and we were back on the road in about an hour.
We are blessed to be ALIVE, much less unhurt. Insurance will fix the car.
Moral: we don't know when our time will be up. If the tree had fallen five feet farther out, if we had hit a little bigger branch (some of them were two feet in diameter, if I had jerked the wheel to the left and hit the other car--so many things had to go right to counteract this one thing that went wrong. Someone was watching over us. Coulda been Nigel, but I think it was someone higher up!!
DonM