Things feel kind of weird this morning...
Yesterday when I got home from work, the power was out at my house (and, indeed, all over the neighborhood). The result of some thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, I guess. Marty grilled chicken outside for dinner and then we sat around talking with the windows open and candles burning. The crickets were singing loud. The power didn't come back on until after we'd gone to bed.
It's amazing how heavily we rely upon electricity. And of course it's one of those things we don't think about until it's gone.
This morning, as I was waiting at a traffic light on top of an overpass that crosses I-95, I glanced down at the interstate below and saw an accident in process. A red SUV was skidding across 4 lanes of traffic on its side. I'm not sure how it got on its side, or how it started to skid sideways like that. Luckily the cars behind it were able to slow down in time, rather than run right into it. When it reached the shoulder, it tipped over and landed on its roof.
I was about 100 yards away, sitting in my car on a bridge that crosses over the interstate where the accident happened. It was the strangest thing -- I just turned my head and saw this car moving the wrong way. I felt like I was watching it in slow motion. I saw the driver crawl out of the vehicle after a minute, and heard the police sirens approaching by the time the light changed.
Then I went to work.
Yesterday when I got home from work, the power was out at my house (and, indeed, all over the neighborhood). The result of some thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, I guess. Marty grilled chicken outside for dinner and then we sat around talking with the windows open and candles burning. The crickets were singing loud. The power didn't come back on until after we'd gone to bed.
It's amazing how heavily we rely upon electricity. And of course it's one of those things we don't think about until it's gone.
This morning, as I was waiting at a traffic light on top of an overpass that crosses I-95, I glanced down at the interstate below and saw an accident in process. A red SUV was skidding across 4 lanes of traffic on its side. I'm not sure how it got on its side, or how it started to skid sideways like that. Luckily the cars behind it were able to slow down in time, rather than run right into it. When it reached the shoulder, it tipped over and landed on its roof.
I was about 100 yards away, sitting in my car on a bridge that crosses over the interstate where the accident happened. It was the strangest thing -- I just turned my head and saw this car moving the wrong way. I felt like I was watching it in slow motion. I saw the driver crawl out of the vehicle after a minute, and heard the police sirens approaching by the time the light changed.
Then I went to work.
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