seen in the news recently how the latest winter up here is proving
to be one of the worst ever recorded in many parts of the US. Well,
apparently Texas was no exception. It hasn’t been this cold for a
looooooong time and the state is definitely not prepared to deal
with the consequences of such extreme weather conditions. So, put
extreme cold and rain together, add Texas’s inefficiency to keep
the roads safe and that’s what you get: frozen roads…for hours
or even days. To make a long story short, we literally drove ON A
SHEET OF ICE for 4 hours, at 20 miles/hour. There were many
cars abandoned at the shoulders on our way, a truck right in front of
us swung like a giant snake, almost all the exits to gas stations, food
and services were blocked by the snow and the ice, and we were
lucky to be able to drag ourselves to a Baptist church in the middle
of nowhere to open its doors and most importantly, its bathroom’s
doors for us. Thank Lord (literally)!
As a result, we were delayed another 3 hours, which made us
stop many miles before our next scheduled destination (not before one of the most amazing sunsets we've ever seen!!!).
Sydney, exhausted after all the adrenaline, passed out (not literally) in a
motel’s bedroom strongly smelling like cheap cleaning products,
right by the main road of a town called Amarillo, Texas. And the bad
surprises were just starting…
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