Today was the end of Virginia and Tennesse. Tenn-a-fucking see! Let me tell you about Tennesee. The first 4 hours of driving were in driving rain topped off with thick fog on the twisty mountain tops. Then fifteen minutes outside Nashville I saw a large black cloud with lightning. I tune my radio to a local station which is about to give a weather update when a bolt of lightning cuts the station's signal. Another station gladly tells me there is a tornado heading down I-40. I check my GPS and find out i'm in the path of the tornado. To compound matters I realized I had just recently passed the last rest area for quite a while. The rain picks up going down the hill. Then a thick black cloud unhinges its jaw and swallows my car whole. Like a wet sock in a dryer I was in black vortex with literally a foot of visibility and getting pummeled by all sides. The sound was constant and threatening; a mix of wind, rain and finally hail. Navigating by feel, I limped my car over the rumble strip and hoped that a runaway truck didn't slam into me. Isolated in darkness there was no way off telling what was around me. The only relief from the dark were the lightning bolts which ripped through the sky like glowing white blades through a black burlap sacks. After three minutes of car-bucking winds, mother nature decided I had passed her rite of passage or just got bored fucking with me and gathered up her tempest as abruptly as it began leaving sunshine peering through white fluffy clouds. If it weren't for the pools of water in the farmer's fields there would be no trace of the twister. As a reward for enduring the shit storm Tennesse gave me a red sky sunset abover its gently rolling hills for the remainder of the day.
Ya know it's really nothing like this:
but it'd be sweet if it were.
Furthermore, in Virginia, there is a road, "route 666" the portion I happened over was named "Hogback Road". Legend!
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