Last Wednesday was the day before Thanksgiving and break. I recieved a call from my mom and a couple of neighbors telling me I should consider heading home early in order to avoid the bad weather. So I packed up and was on my way. The first thing I noticed was the bad wind. You easily feel it on the on-ramp to highway 218. Once I got onto HWY-20 it got even worse. The traffic was only going 35-40 mph. We were even at a stand still for about 20 minutes, because there was a very icy bridge.
After the bridge the traffic started going around 35-40 mph. Since it was just after the traffic jam, the road was packed. I must have hit a patch of ice just as a gust of wind came, because I started to fish tail. I had to choose the car beside me or the ditch on my left; I chose the ditch. I spun one and one half times before I finally was able to get my car to stop. I was facing the opposite direction. I almost went into oncoming traffic and hit a bridge. Luckily, I was able to drive right out of the ditch and was back on track. After that I went about 30 mph. It took me about 3 hours to get home instead of 2 hours.
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