elizabear | (no subject) (Reply)

Z really wanted to go to gymnastics today after we missed his morning class, so we went this afternoon. There were only two kids, both make-ups. The radio traffic report noted there were vehicles in certain breakdown lanes after being hit with flying ice. I have to admit that there were two sheets of ice that came off my roof on the highway today, thankfully not hitting anyone. One was kind of close, but the pickup moved over to the next lane to avoid it (I was in the middle left, he was in the middle right, and had to move to the far right). The other flew off when there was no one behind me for quite some distance. It was from the front section, and judging by the noise, I think it flew up, landed on my roof, and then went off behind me. I really do try to get all the crud off my minivan roof - I even bought a telescoping broom to get the snow off because I'm so short, and man do I hate those driving igloos I see on the road with only a tiny windshield space cleared - but there was nothing I could do to get the ice off today. I think the sun and highway speeds took off the first piece, and the rest went off from the sun and from the crunch it got from the first piece.

Lots of stories of bad car accidents today, so I hope everyone gets home safely. I saw a couple of really crunched cars along the roadside, which definitely made me more cautious.