Now that I'm living in SC again, I get to experience summer thunderstorms once again. Most of the time I enjoy them. Wednesday was one of my scariest. I left work hearing the constant thunder in the distance and the moment I got in my car it started raining. I could see sheets of rain in the direction I was heading but had to go that way anyway. At the first intersection, I have a choice and I usually turn left. The light turned green and I noticed there were too many cars int he turning lane to make the light so I opted to go straight. The moment I entered the intersection the rain came even harder. I couldn't go above 20 mph. As I continued forward, the rain just kept pelting my car and it was really difficult to see. I had to keep slowing down and was going about 10 mph. All of a sudden there was a huge gust of wind. I noticed some minor debris floating around and then my windshield was completely white with water. I had to stop and for half a minute I thought there might be a tornado right in front of me. It was pretty scary. It eased up a bit and I slowly inched forward. About 20 yards in front of me, half of a pine tree had come tumbling down over a powerline and on top of a pick up truck. A police officer was in the lane next to me and stopped to help. The driver in the truck seemed to be ok but the tree and debris had scattered over almost all 4 lanes. Five minutes later I was home and by the time I was exiting my car the rain was stopping. Crazy!
What I learned ... when driving in a bad thunderstorm, try to stay as close to the middle of the road as possible. The truck that got hit by the tree had been in the right lane.
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