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Here's something that happened over the weekend.
I'm sure many of you could relate to.
Saturday morning, beautiful, mild temp, sunny, a bit windy.
I'm on the parkway (eastbound), left lane, doin 65+. Very light traffic. Scanning, checkin for smokey, etc. Havin a blast
Lookin ahead, I see westbound traffic movin at a good clip as well.
I also spot a car with some tied-down sheetrock on the roof, in his left lane goin westbound.
Sure as heck, a wind blast caught the sheetrock, it split in half, and before I could say "Oh Sh!t"
I'm lookin at a sizeable chunk of wallboard flyin over the divide about 100 feet in front of me. All I had time for was "BRACE FOR IMPACT mode !!!!
I ducked, tucked behind my shield, firmed up the bars, throttled down and kept an eye on the flyin object's trajectory.
Swwhooossshhh !!! I passed it in less than two seconds. The board's momentum kept it flyin to my right and into the center lane , where it landed. Whhhowwww !! Way, way, way too close.
For about 5 seconds after that, I must've recited about 16 "Our Father". Thank you, thank you. Oh!!! Thank you !!!
I remember my safety instructor saying something like " if you're going to collide with an animal, you're better off going straight at it and not try to avoid it" Most times, flying objects will pass and miss you. But if you panic and try to avert it, you may make things worse.
If I had tried to dodge it, and swung into the center lane, I surely would've had an encounter of the worst kind.
Just something for you all to keep in mind.
Continued my "pleasant" ride...
I'm sure many of you could relate to.
Saturday morning, beautiful, mild temp, sunny, a bit windy.
I'm on the parkway (eastbound), left lane, doin 65+. Very light traffic. Scanning, checkin for smokey, etc. Havin a blast
Lookin ahead, I see westbound traffic movin at a good clip as well.
I also spot a car with some tied-down sheetrock on the roof, in his left lane goin westbound.
Sure as heck, a wind blast caught the sheetrock, it split in half, and before I could say "Oh Sh!t"
I'm lookin at a sizeable chunk of wallboard flyin over the divide about 100 feet in front of me. All I had time for was "BRACE FOR IMPACT mode !!!! I ducked, tucked behind my shield, firmed up the bars, throttled down and kept an eye on the flyin object's trajectory.
Swwhooossshhh !!! I passed it in less than two seconds. The board's momentum kept it flyin to my right and into the center lane , where it landed. Whhhowwww !! Way, way, way too close.
For about 5 seconds after that, I must've recited about 16 "Our Father". Thank you, thank you. Oh!!! Thank you !!!
I remember my safety instructor saying something like " if you're going to collide with an animal, you're better off going straight at it and not try to avoid it" Most times, flying objects will pass and miss you. But if you panic and try to avert it, you may make things worse.
If I had tried to dodge it, and swung into the center lane, I surely would've had an encounter of the worst kind.
Just something for you all to keep in mind.
Continued my "pleasant" ride...
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