Crazy Weekend

So this weekend was a little crazy.  Sommer and I were planning on looking for a place to live and for a renter this weekend.  Saturday I was going to have my first day of work at Best Buy and I was excited.  I got a call late Friday night and was told by the girl in charge of my training that I would training during this next week (this week now).  Boo, so Saturday morning we took it easy and had a good breakfast of MANCAKES and bacon.

Yum.

Saturday morning was going along just fine and then we decided to head down for Cooper's Bday and visit with mom and the Holms.  We headed out around 11 and made our way for Cedar City, about a 4 hour drive.  Roads seemed to be ok, just a lot of rain in and around us in the Salt lake valley.  Normally, the further south you get the warmer it gets.  I wasn't too worried because I figured it'd just keep raining and such.  Well by Nephi Utah it was cold enough that it was snowing pretty hard.  I was driving the Civic and taking it slow.  It is kind of fun seeing people spinning their tires in the snow as they try to floor it from a stop...well with snow sticking all over the road we started seeing plenty of cars stopped in the middle of the highway just spinning their tires. I slowly maneuvered around them and found multiple semi's strewn about the road just stopped in lanes trying to get up the hill or stopped in the middle of the road trying to get their chains on.  It was fun being in a little civic taking it real slow and making it up the couple mountain passes between Provo and Cedar City.

After the last mountain pass, just passed Beaver, we found a huge accident.  Two semi trucks were involved along with an SUV and some other car.  The first Semi had jack knifed and its trailer had taken the hood off of an SUV.  The second Semi was partly off the road along with the poor car that tried to avoid it.  Sommer got a pic of it.  The roads still had plenty of snow on them and the only road that was showing was in the tire tracks of other cars that lead the way.  I was taking it pretty slow at 35 mph and was driving a whole lot slower than other drivers but was in the fast lane because it was cleaner than the slow lane.  I don't really know what else to say...


I crashed...I was going slow but hit some slush and that sent me off the road.  If you look close you can see the north bound traffic is backed up as far as we could see...all due to that jack knifed 2 semi accident.  Also, because of that accident nobody would help.

There was a police officer parked 200 feet away from where we crashed.  He was parked in the "emergency vehicle only turn around" while we crashed and watched us skid to a stop.  Dumb thing was he didn't come out to help and actually went into his car.  The next time he was outside I went and asked if he could help us but he said he couldn't do a thing.  I guess Protect and Serve only goes 199 feet.  So I called BJ and he ended up getting us a tow truck which came 2 1/2 hours later (due to all the emergencies).


During our 2.5 hours of boredom the roads were cleaned by 4-5 snow plows.  The first one was spraying snow on our side of the road, so I started getting a little worried but was positive the guy would lift up his blade since he was cruising down the highway near 40 mph.  To our luck (along with the car's) the snow plow didn't stop and didn't lift his blade but instead threw A LOT of snow and rock and slush at my car at 40 mph.  It scared us both silly.  I was so so so mad but grateful that the windows weren't shattered.  The snow plows that followed all saw an angry 23 year old jump out of the car and wave his arms...I figured they wouldn't plow snow at me at that speed without risk of felony.

Well the wheel got a little messed up with rocks in the wheel bead and it was a little stressful, but we had a good time down in Cedar City with the Holms and Mom over the weekend.  I also washed the car and can't really find any crazy dents or scratches that I could actually blame the snow plow for causing.  All n all it was an adventurous weekend!