Showing posts with label Bad Traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Traffic. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Safely Back In My Abode After Surviving Yet One More Fort Worth Near Death Experience

You are looking at the 2 in the afternoon view from my patio, well after the sun has lit up the place.

I am waiting for lunch to launch from the oven.

I had a near death driving experience this afternoon, coming back from North Richland Hills.

When you go from Davis Boulevard to I-820 south, you have to move over a couple lanes in order to avoid heading to Fort Worth on 121, aka the Airport Freeway.

I'd moved over well before the freeway split. And then suddenly I saw a big semi-truck ahead of me was not moving. I slammed on the brakes, as did the car behind me. I came real close to hitting the truck and the car behind me came real close to hitting me.

Traffic was a dead standstill on 820. I was able to get back on to the lanes that become 121. A lot of people were doing that. Exiting 121, at Handley-Ederville, is an easy detour back to where I am right now.

As I drove south on Handley-Ederville I glanced over at the 820 freeway and saw emergency lights flashing near the bridge over the Trinity. That is a real scary stretch of road that loses a lane right before the bridge. I've seen a bad accident there more than once.

Anyway, this was my first scary driving incident in a long, long time. I don't remember what the previous one was, but this one was real close to becoming a real bad thing.

The buzzer just announced that lunch is ready to launch. So, I am in food mode now.