Weather

August 10, 2009

We've been travelling a lot lately and driving from destination to destination can bring you through vastly different weather systems.

Yesterday we drove through a particularly harsh summer storm.

Sadly we passed by a very bad accident surrounded by rescue people, including police and medical personnel. It was horrible seeing the mangled upside down vehicle, the body crushed like it had just been tossed there. We pray the person/or people in that wreck lived to see another day.

So as we passed by, the traffic in front of us formed a slow train that wound its way through the dense forest that sits between Kenora ON and Dryden. Our impromptu caravan thinned out about 20 kilometres later leaving about six of us. The rain was steady and grew in force as we edged our way to Vermillion Bay. Midway we were forced to pull to the side the road and wait minutes as the rain reached torrential amounts. Previous, we had been crawling at 20, 30 kilometres per hour trying to see the highway in front of us.

We parked and waited for about 5 or 10 minutes and slowly edged our way back onto the highway when it seemed to slow to a steady heavy fall.

It's always a bit of a stress driving through conditions like yesterday, but an equal relief when it ends. The weather was glorious after the we drove through the worst of it and we couldn't resist taking some photos.