Surreal night

[RGNSCOT 0]

Your guardian angel was with you both is all I can say after seeing those pictures. I hope that you and Chas are feeling better to today.

Tracy,

I hope you and chas are doing ok...... Mary's right.. you had someone looking out for you....

Hope you both enjoyed the pizza.. that was nice of your boss to do that.. take care xxx

aggy xx

[Ban Hammer 12,880]

I'm not sure what I said that sounded that way, but no - I'm not that dim.

it was this part "We were doing exactly 70 mph..."

unless i'm on cruise control i never know exactly what speed i'm driving

[TracyTN 237]

I only knew that because I had looked at the speedometer a little bit before we started to hydroplane. I guess it could have varied up or down - likely more down than up though - but that's why I put that. I'm one of those people who wouldn't even need cruise as a feature on the car. I think I've used it three times total in the 2 years I've had the car.

[annelizabeth 1]

Tracy, have only just seen your post. Thank goodness you were both ok, it must have been terrifying.

[JenT 0]

Wow Tracy.... I'm just seeing this.... I echo everyone else's disbelief and warm wished..

*note to self: don't pass a semi when there's enough water on the road to cause hydroplaning*

Jen

[TracyTN 237]

You're right about that note, Jen! But I've probably done that same thing hundreds of times before and never had a problem. It just must have been something else w/ the conditions that night - maybe it was windier than normal, or maybe there was some oil on the road or something? I have no idea. We are just so thankful and lucky that we were not seriously injured.

And at least we got a new (well, new to us!) car out of it as well.

[no name 1]

You're right about that note, Jen! But I've probably done that same thing hundreds of times before and never had a problem. It just must have been something else w/ the conditions that night - maybe it was windier than normal, or maybe there was some oil on the road or something? I have no idea. We are just so thankful and lucky that we were not seriously injured.

And at least we got a new (well, new to us!) car out of it as well.

I assume you guys are all better now?

[TracyTN 237]

Yeah, we're much better - thanks. We've been silly and haven't gotten piccys yet of our nice new car, though!

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

Tracy -- glad to hear you and Chas are safe and on the mend. How frightening!

[*julez* 124]

Yeah, we're much better - thanks. We've been silly and haven't gotten piccys yet of our nice new car, though!

Glad you two are dping well! So in lieu of pics, can you tell us what kind of car you got?

[no name 1]

Yeah, we're much better - thanks. We've been silly and haven't gotten piccys yet of our nice new car, though!

[Peggy 1]

Glad you are both fine.

[TracyTN 237]

Yeah, we're much better - thanks. We've been silly and haven't gotten piccys yet of our nice new car, though!

Glad you two are dping well! So in lieu of pics, can you tell us what kind of car you got?

Yeah, sorry about that!! We got a 2007 Toyota Camry -- LOVE it!! The payments only went up about $20 a month, and insurance is actually a little lower (despite the old car being 2 years older than this one).

And I think I am going to have to take the bull by the horns and get the pictures of it. Leaving the task with Chas has meant it's not yet gotten done.

[MaryandMian 1]

Glad to hear that you both are doing well and congrats on your new car.

[luv2teach77 41]

Tracy,

I've only just seen this post so I hope that by now you guys are on the road to recovery from your various aches and pains. Those pictures were crazy and I'm very glad to hear that even with the car getting as beat up as that, you guys didn't have any major injuries to deal with.

I don't know if Chas or any other UK members can back me up on this but in my 9 years of driving in the UK, I never felt any of my cars being buffeted around in the wind from a semi to such a degree as I feel while driving almost daily over here in the US. I don't know if it's the design of the trailers or the size of them but the way that the air circulates around semis in the US is much more obvious than I ever remember in the UK. One deign feature that I'd like to see in the US is the mandatory installation of deflectors along the underside of the trailers which won't allow the hood of a car under the trailer unless a huge impact has taken place.

Either way. I'm glad to hear you guys are doing ok and hope that all those insurance payments take care of getting you rolling in a shiny new set of wheels soon.

Mark