Driving in the rain yesterday,

I passed four wrecks in the space of thirty minutes. Three cars and a tractor trailer. All four had lost control in the left lane and ended up in the median. All but the tractor trailer had spun out before it was over; and the big rig looked like its trailer might have tried to swap ends before it stopped. And I could tell that three of them had hit one of those cable "fences" they're stringing up all up and down the Interstates now. The big rig's trailer was still hard up against it.

Apparently it's really easy to lose it swinging into the left lane on a wet road. And apparently when you do you can lose it big.

And apparently those silly fence-looking things do work--two of the cars looked like they might have ended up in the oncoming lanes without it (one hit it HARD--there were still pieces of it jammed into the cables). And the big rig might have made it too, if it didn't flip over on the way. I don't think I'll chuckle quite so much about those things now.

Scary and educational. Hmph.