I am so broken right now...
Pfff...
But it snowed a lot here in the Netherlands!! Wich is quite awesome for our country, I tell you..
We went snowboarding in our own country, outdoor, for the first time ever!!
Wanna trade lol?
Last night, I was driving with a friend down some back country roads. It was snowing. We were on this turn with ditches on either side of the road. Visibility was almost nil. I couldn't see anything behind me and only about 3 metres in front of me. I hit a patch of black ice and for several metres, the car started swerving. I tried threshold breaking but that just made the swerving worse. If I pulled the e-brake too early, I would have spun out of control. So I had to aim the car either to the left, going through metal wire and into a deep ditch....to the far right, going through metal wire and into a deep ditch, or to the hard right, into a shallow, snow-covered ditch.
I pulled the e-brake, slammed the brakes, jerked the wheel as hard right as I could. The car did a 180 and was angled precariously in the ditch, almost flipped over, but just not quite. I came less than one foot of hitting the beginning of the metal railing with the back end of my car.
A tow out of the ditch and $152.25 later, I wouldn't exactly mind living in a country where it snows infrequently.
(Yes, we're both uninjured lol. And no, I was going 10km/h under the speed limit. I wasn't speeding.)