Coming west from Independence, MO we drove past this scene and saw a Suburban rolled over. The bottom of the vehicle was facing towards traffic, but I looked back and saw the driver still strapped in and clearly dead. I couldn’t believe what I saw and said “I think I just saw a db (dead body)”. It was the man pictured in this article. As we were coming up on the scene, I saw skid marks as the driver’s side tires hit the rumble strips on the right side of the interstate and over-corrected going sideways at about 65mph and then about 6 rolls in the median onto the side of the vehicle. We could tell there were kids in this crash because of all the diaper bags and luggage strewn about. All windows were blown out – it was a violent crash, but it looked survivable to me. At least if the vehicle had been equipped with side impact bags to keep heads from fatally smacking side pillars, etc
It was shocking to see the body just hanging there. Sadly, both of my girls saw the man still strapped in. I had to look this up to make sure it was not a family coming back to Utah from Nauvoo. Regardless, it makes you realize how fragile life is. We put about 6,000 miles on our vehicle and this could have been us at many junctures….
A little later that day, as we made our way north up to Chimney Rock, NB just inside the CO border, we heard tornado warnings coming over the radio. They said there would be touch-downs between two towns on the exact highway we were on. No way to escape east or west on that road. I could tell we were going thru the wind shear zone as we tried to outrun the black wall that was starting to drop down; I had it floored and could not get above 55mph on the flat, the winds were so intense. I had to drive down the middle of the highway in order to keep the vehicle on the road. Sheesh that was a white-knuckle ride. We only saw a few small starts forming in the clouds, but never saw any turn into the real deal. That was enough excitement for me. I was about to click my heels twice to get out of there. This guy in Taiwan had a scare of a lifetime as they have dealt with unstable air over there the last few days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz1wmVUIho&feature=player_detailpage
Then we drove through Jellystone the next day right past where this guy got eaten by a grizzly:
It is a raw world out there. At the start of the trip 4 weeks ago, my daughters were charged by a grizzly in Glacier NP while hiking with my sister and her family. My sister’s shriek to her husband (at the back of the hiking group, of course) for the bear spray likely averted disaster…. Just glad to be back to normalcy once again!
It will be interesting to see how many times unseen hands have helped from the other side on behalf of my family and other loved ones. Having lost one, I know the sting of loss – but I also know that we have many who are looking out for our welfare from the other side. If it is our time to go, there is nothing that can be done. It simply will happen and we need to accept it and not worry. Fear is not of the Lord. Trust and confidence, tempered with faith and meekness is the Lord’s way.
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