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Subject: This morning

Author:
Rick

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Date Posted: Saturday, November 10, 10:20:02pm

Mom and I drove 3 hours to New Brunswick to visit some family. They were calling for good weather. We had a nice unch with them and then left for hom at 3pm. an hour into the drive home it started to snow. not too bad but you adjust your driving. I come from Ontario and I am very used to bad weather. I got off the highway to get a cup of tea and as we were getting back on a Mountie went by with the lights on. about 20 minutes later we found out where he was going... a 20 to 30 car pile up. We sat there for a good hour and then we were allowed to move to an exit ramp onto a detour. I have never been on this tw lane road in my life. ten minutes later the sky fell... I have never seen a snow storm like that one. never. I come from Ontario. I have lived in Sault Ste. Marie. I have never been through anything like it. We were doing maybe 10 kilometers an hour. If I was a cop I'd have given everyone speeding tickets. A tractor trailer got stuck on the road and we had to go around him. I passed on the outside but cars were passing on the inside too. Incredibly dangerous. no houses. just a steep bank on both sides and forest... miles of forest. I called 911 and told them about the truck stuck and that there was going to be an accident but I couldn't even tell the operator where it was because all of the signs were covered with snow. a pickup pulling a camper pulled out and passed me. by the time the trailer was at my side window, the truck was out of sight because of the snow. I screamed Holy shit! the operator asked what was wrong... it was a cop I was talking too. I said, "Stay on the phone because in about 2 minutes I'll be reporting an accident." That camper went around a bend in the road and disappeared. I am going to say this: it took more than 2 hours to get back onto the highway. If at 9pm you asked me if I thought Mom and I would still be alive at 10pm I'd have said no. I hnestly do not know how I drove through it.

I have never in my life been as scared as I was tonight because there was absolutely no possibility of pulling off the road and with God as my witness, you could not see25 feet in front of the car. I will tell you something else... it was as scare as I ever want to be and I will never talk about tonight again.

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