artbyakm2183's Blog

Well Though the page still says I have an error I am finally able to get back on this site! YAY! Alot has happened in the past few weeks that I want to share with everyone! Ok so it is mostly one thing but alot came with it!

Last week on the 13th  my husband was on his way home from his acting class, as many of you know it was raining pretty good. On his way home on I-40 he hit a spot in the road that caused him to hydroplane...right into a cement barrier! Not only did he hit it once but he spun and hit it again with the back end ending up over the three lanes up on the embankment on the other side of the road! Thank goodness no one else was involved.  I recieved the call about 10-10:30pm that he had been in the accident, I of course freaked out worried that he was hurt. He told me he was fine NOT A SCRATCH on him! So knowing he was fine my concern turned to our car. He told me it was't pretty as you can only imagine that it wasn't in good condition after hitting a cement barrier!  When he finally came home, thanks to my mother going out to rescue him, I was very teary and glad to seem him but had major concerns for the car, it was the only thing we had. My husband and his optomistic attitude reassured me things would be fine, God will take care of us. 

The next morning, yes it was Valentines Day, we barrowed my sisters car to go to Winston and clean out our smashed up Toyota Camery. We made it out there just fine, took many pictures (that I will eventually post) cleaned out our stuff and headed home. On our way home on 311, we ended up on the side of the road with a flat tire! Though annoyed we laughed at the misfortune and my husband changed the tire. As we started off again we noticed that something wasn't right so we pulled over again. As if it wasn't bad enough that one car had been smashed and we had already had one flat tire that had to be changed in the cold cold wind and had our son sitting in the back seat, we discovered that the SPARE was flat!! Dry rot had killed the spare tire!

So with the spare tire flat now we where stranded, for about an hour and a half, waiting for my sisters husband. After  waiting for him we were rescued and home safely within minutes.

My story of misfortunes does not end there. I don't want to say to much because I don't know how it could effect things, but the accident report from the night before was discovered to be all wrong and my husb and was cited for exceeding a safe speed limit in unsafe  weather conditions! He wasn't going the speed that the police officer wrote down, about 10mph SLOWER, and he was even UNDER the speed limit! So I don't quite understand why the officer marked him for the wrong speed or how the accident report came out wrong but we intend to fight it. Any  advice on this would be welcomed!

The good part of all this is that we did get a new Van out of the ordeal. It is a nice van that is in my husband's name not my mothers, and it is something that will be very handy this summer on our trips to and from Winston doing theatre and on the severl trips for weddings we will be making to Ohio. Good things do come from bad things it just doesn't alwys show up right away!

For those of you who travel in bad weather conditions BE CAREFUL! No matter how good you are sometimes fate takes hold and there is NOTHING you can do to stop it. My husband is a good example of how sometimes it just happens no matter how many precautions you take.

Good Day and God bless!