Blaugust 2024: Stuck in bad weather

August 29, 2024

I got this random idea for a blog post from Blog Prompts: a memorable time you were stuck in bad weather. β›ˆ Mainly because one event immediately popped into my mind.

Last year, during the big international move, we were desperate to do anything to take our pet bunny with us. Long story short, we ended up having to drive from Orlando down to Miami to visit a specific vet, and a tropical storm was blowing in on that day lol.

The trip is 3.5 hours one way if you take highways and stuff. Going there was no problem, but getting back home was terrifying. Eventually, these huge sheets of clouds and rain would appear in the distance; some of them almost looked like tornadoes! πŸŒͺ

Like…EXCUSE ME? Unfortunately, pictures do this no justice…
I think this was taken before it started getting dark. Just low hanging clouds like that all over.

This is what truckers and others have to deal with often? No thanks…😯

We ended up getting stuck in the storm on the last 30 ish minutes of the drive. The rain and wind was quite intense. So much so that I thought we had a real chance of getting into an accident. We were on the highway, not going fast at all, but still not exactly slow. My sister commented that she had to really grip the wheel as the wind kept pushing the car. It really felt like one small mistake and game over. And we weren’t even just worried about our driving; what about little Ethel or Bert on the road panicking?

Visibility was very bad. We basically could only follow lights ahead of us.

At one point, I realized that I’d been gripping the sides of the door…πŸ˜… Anyway, we made it back without seeing any accidents. Everyone on the road was probably really locked in and focused lol

Which reminds me…πŸ‘€ Y’all ever had nightmares involving cars? I can only remember one that I’ll never be able to forget. Basically, my dad accidentally and neglectfully reversed our car over a cliff with the whole family inside. Aside from feeling utter dread, I remember feeling extremely mad at him in those few seconds of falling to our doom. πŸ™‚

Anyway, car travel is dangerous and I don’t like it… And it’s so much worse in bad weather.

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