Median Tours
Every morning, when we pray with our son, we ask the Lord to put his angels around us to protect us and keep us safe.
Today, my angels earned overtime.
As I was already late for work this morning, I was driving faster than conditions should have allowed. I was passing a silver Pontiac(?) in the left lane, when I hit a patch of ice. At first I swerved left a bit, but thought I had it recovered. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I hit another patch of ice and started swerving right. As I saw the front quarter panel of the silver car looming closer, I thought of the impending pileup with the additional cars behind us.
However, at that very moment it was if I were pushed back to the left, away from the other vehicle. My left tire caught a bit of a snow drift and I left the comfort of the road for a snow-spray-filled tour of the median on Highway 41. Everyone else continued on without me, and without further incident.
I have four wheel drive, so luckily I was able to pull myself out of the ditch and continue on to work (at a reasonable speed this time). To me, the most interesting part was I only got as close to a crash as an angel is wide.