The Story

OK, I know some have been waiting to hear the story that I didn't want to tell. It is kinda of embarrassing but here goes. On the way home from vacation to the Outer Banks, NC. I had a "Traffic Collision", they are not called accidents, because accidents are something that you didn't mean to happen. I know!!! Like I got up that morning and said "I think I will run into the back of someone on my way home from vacation today!" So I will call it an accident. So we are on our way home, always a sad time, nobody wants to go home from vaction,and we really don't want to tell granddaddy (my Dad) bye, or the ocean, sand, sun, etc. We stayed around the beach about an hour that day getting a few things and had forgotten and enjoying the air one last time. we finally hit the road off the beach and had not problems it wasn't even all that busy. About 1pm we hit the biggest rain storm I have seen this year. We where in the Newport News area on I 64 West bond. the interstate is 4 lanes in that area and then its goes from 4 to 2 lanes. So you can emagine the traffic, stop go stop again go again, then anytime you have traffic like that there is oil build up on the road. So I was in the left lane, I had just merged for the second time. Traffic Opens up and the vechile in front of me moves ahead. I was about 1 car length behind and stsrt to go, then the car in front stopped suddenly and I also applied my brake but the car didn't stop untill it hit the vechile (#2) in front. I tried looking for a place to go but the right lane was blocked with cars, to the left was trees and a ditch. I tried to head for the ditch but hit the car in front before the ditch. No Airbags since I was not going very fast but enough damage that the car was undriveable.

My 1st thought after making sure everyone was ok was great now how do we get home. I was told that the vechile infront was pushed into another vechile so this one is #3. as I watched a man get out of #3 and walk back to #2 and then to my car (#1) I thought he looks familiar, but dismissed this idea from my mind because I was 3.5 hours from home at the time and didn't think I would know anyone. the police where called and as we are waiting we are trying to exchange info, when #3 hands me his I reconized the name and asked him if he was --- dad? He gave me this look like I was crazy then I told him that his son and my daughter where in the same kindergarten class and that I worked at the school. Well as we stood there talking he said that he was in a 7 seat van and it was only him and his 2 kids, and if we wanted he would be glad to make room for us and take us home since we live in the same town, what a miracle. So I told my family to only get what they really needed and we would worry about the rest of our stuff later. (thinking that I could have the car towed home and fixed). So no one was hurt in any of the vechiles and we made it home safely.

The next day I was glad we rode home with #3 because we found out that we didn't have renters on our insurance policy. Miracle number 2 happened then because our bishop had a car that we could borrow until we could get ours back or a new one. We also have the greatest neighbors in the world that loaned us their truck for a few days too. My mom took me back down on Tuesday to get the rest of our stuff out of the car and I took everything because looking at the car again that morning I thought they are going to total it. By Friday I had got the car that they where calling it a total loss and we started looking for something that weekend.

I was cited with Following too close and because I am a school bus driver and need my job I went to court over the ticket. Just let me say that the charges where dropped and I still have my job. Thank Heavenly Father for teaching me, I have had a rough year this past year and he has again taught me that I need to relie on him.

Been There, Done That and don't want to do it again.