IT HAPPENS

Nov 14/09

Another week has flown by and it included some bizarre things happening to people around us.  We had neighbours from Alberta next to us for a few days who had travelled across the Rogers Pass in snow and slush and arrived here just as it was getting dark.  It is not easy to back up a big trailer when you can’t see much around you, but they did okay.  They stayed for a few days and told us that they were heading out for Tijuana, Mexico on Thursday.

So they hooked up and pulled out that morning and we expected them to turn the rig around and come back out past us which is the normal exit.  We never did see them again so I figured that we just missed them.  We went into Kelowna for a couple of hours and when we got back, we went over to the activity centre to log on to the internet.  We saw that one of the condo carports had collapsed on top of the vehicle parked under it.

We were told that our neighbour was driving out that way and clipped the carport with the corner of his trailer.  Apparently, he damaged his trailer and it looked like the car in the carport was wrecked.  As it turned out however, when they cleared the rubble away, the car had very little damage.

But what a horrible experience for those poor people towing the fifth wheel.  We don’t know what they had to do to get it fixed, or if they will make it to Tijuana as planned.

Stuart talked to some other people who said they were stopped at a red light in Kelowna and a semi truck rear-ended their trailer.  They were planning to take it to the manufacturer in La Grande, Oregon to get it fixed.  It snowed here yesterday morning so they had to postpone the trip until today.  It is so sad when bad things happen to people.

The snow we got was predicted, but there were still accidents on the road in this area.  We were glad we were able to just stay home.  Here is what it looked like for us—sure glad that it melted by the end of the day.