Treacherous Highway

Recently we took a quick trip to NC to pick up the RV and bring it back to Florida for a service appointment this coming week. 

As the Mister was driving, I was writing an email to a friend:  

"We are on a secondary road that we often take. It “cuts the corner” from where I-26 and I-95 join. It cuts the mileage a bit, but it is slower. SC was one of the last states to match Federal funds for making the Interstate in the 70’s, and now is one  of the last states to get Federal funds for widening it. The section near where we used to live is notorious for deadly accidents as traffic gets bottlenecked going north just over the Savannah River bridge. Traffic is usually very heavy, going both north and south, and makes for tense driving. The secondary road is straight as an arrow and has areas that are 60 mph. It runs through many dying towns.... you are not going to believe this, but as I was writing the last paragraph we arrived in Hardeeville and merged onto I-95 south, only to discover that there had been an accident in the north bound lane, just in the area I had mentioned above where 3 lanes in GA meet with 2 lanes in SC ( which currently have barrels and construction items all over as they are beginning the process of widening that area). 

Traffic is backed up for 10 miles and Google Maps says the highway is closed for two hours!!!! It’s noon. It’s unbearably hot and people are stranded on the highway. What a mess. 

We wonder how many cars will run out of gas by keeping engines going for AC, or how many cars will overheat by trying to keep engines going… or how many people may get very sick from the heat…or worse?"

As we continued on our journey toward home I did check Google maps and saw that the highway was opened and traffic was flowing, even before two hours had elapsed. I'm sure the folks who were stuck were thrilled to be on their way to their destinations. 

We were just thrilled to pull into our driveway!