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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarrenGMiller" data-source="post: 2489234" data-attributes="member: 23174">When my wife and I left for our honeymoon, we drove from Winter Haven, FL to Ocala, FL and spent the night, then left Ocala headed for New Orleans.  Mergin onto I-10, we were forced off the road by an inattentive motorist who entered the same lane we were entering.  No contact, but close.  Near Pensacola, we drove through a HUGE forest fire that was burning both sides of the highway and the sky was black with smoke that rose to an incredible height.  We could see the smoke and flames from miles away.  A few hours later into our trip, a violent storm caught us.  It literally ripped the windshield wipers off of our car.  I pulled over under a bridge and ran out onto the highway, backtracking, and miraculously found both wiper blades and reattached them.  Shortly thereafter we crossed the world's scariest metal mesh deck bridge.  I was going about 40 mph and had no control whatsoever for a few seconds.  I still can't believe we survived that drive. On another trip in 1998, we left Charleston, SC headed for Akron, OH to see my wife's sister.  As we drove north on I-77 in West Virginia, we began seeing cars parked on the sides of the highway.  Soon, we crossed an overpass and saw the National Guard putting boats into the water right from an exit ramp.  The water was up to the edge of the highway we were driving on at this point, so we got off at the next rest area and found out that I-77 was closed at the Ohio border and we would have to make a detour.  It was beginning to get dark when we left the interstate and after we and the car behind us turned onto the rural two-lane we were directed onto, the National Guard closed the road to further traffic.  As we drove, we saw the river beside the road grow higher and higher, eventually reaching the road.  We were watching houses float by to our left and people packing their belongings and heading to higher ground on our right.  I kept driving.  At one point, we saw a flooded nuclear power plant.  At another point the opposite lane (which we did not seee another car use the entire time we were driving) started dropping into the water as we watched... talk about white-knuckle driving.  Later in that trip, my parents called (July 4th actually) to tell me my brother had died. DM</blockquote>

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