I’ve decided to disappear for a short while to ring in the summer and the successful end of a year-long project, among other celebrations. Normally I have a better itinerary planned, but I’m playing this one pretty lose. I started at the folks’ lakehouse, then did an overnight in Lubbock last night. Tonight, I’m headed up to Monte Vista, Colorado with some offroading and sightseeing to take me into Wyoming at least. Then who knows.
But it seems like the Panhandle wants to scare the shit out of me every time I leave. This rolled up rather quickly, and then escalated even more quickly.
This may be my scariest weather-on-the-road moment. The storm came out of nowhere and suddenly the white-out was so bad that I simply couldn’t see. I tried to get as far off the road as I could, hoping not to be the first — or worse, second — in a pileup, but I just couldn’t see. And as the wind whipped across the car and felt like it would roll it, radar showed the storm system moving in the opposite direction. With hail and a rotation hook.
And not fifteen minutes later, even the road was mostly dry.
So that was odd… hopefully things are calmer tomorrow.