Well here it is.
I was coming home from eating out Saturday night around 10 PM. There was rain in the forecast for later that evening but the sky decided to open up a little early that night.
I was leaving San Antonio headed for New Braunfels when it started to pour. I slowed it down a little and was cruisin' fine in the left lane. There was a small passenger car about 3-4 car lengths ahead of me when I noticed he just about lost it as his rear end "wiggled" pretty bad. He immediately moved over into the right adjacent lane.
.....I continued in the left lane....... That turned out to be a bad idea!
Seconds later I must have hit at least a 4-5 inch (maybe deeper?) area of standing water in my lane. My steering wheel was pulled out my hands very abruptly and I was looking at the center concrete barrier before I could even process what had just happened. So I just let off the gas and held on for the ride. Regaining control was no longer an option. I tapped the wall with the front-right part of my front bumper and around I went. The right-rear part of the bed slammed into the wall and around I went again, twice this time!
Luckily I never bounced back out into traffic and no one ,including myself, was injured.
Here is the aftermath:
I was coming home from eating out Saturday night around 10 PM. There was rain in the forecast for later that evening but the sky decided to open up a little early that night.
I was leaving San Antonio headed for New Braunfels when it started to pour. I slowed it down a little and was cruisin' fine in the left lane. There was a small passenger car about 3-4 car lengths ahead of me when I noticed he just about lost it as his rear end "wiggled" pretty bad. He immediately moved over into the right adjacent lane......I continued in the left lane....... That turned out to be a bad idea!
Seconds later I must have hit at least a 4-5 inch (maybe deeper?) area of standing water in my lane. My steering wheel was pulled out my hands very abruptly and I was looking at the center concrete barrier before I could even process what had just happened. So I just let off the gas and held on for the ride. Regaining control was no longer an option. I tapped the wall with the front-right part of my front bumper and around I went. The right-rear part of the bed slammed into the wall and around I went again, twice this time!
Luckily I never bounced back out into traffic and no one ,including myself, was injured.
Here is the aftermath:
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