Road Trip

I need to say first of all that I am incapable of writing comments now even using the inblog website from my home computer, so there will be no replies until further notice.
I went to Safita after the New Year Eve, as I recovered from my “flu”, and today we came back. The travel was the worst I have ever been to in Syria. First there was rain, then before we reach Homs there was snow again on the sides of the road. Traffic Police (aka 115) said the roads are patent with difficulty. We stopped in Homs for a bit then took off. Then came the foggy part; visibility was anything from 3-40 meters at most. An area of clear roads followed, then snow started to fall near Qastal – it was more like small hails.
Here, dad made a mistake and hit the brake. The car started swinging and my dad fought to keep control. I must have been thinking to myself: oh no, not again. My mother definitely had flashbacks of a previous similar incident (check my post on Nov 17th 2005), in addition to her life before her eyes. As the car was getting out of control it decided to face the right hand shoulder and make a jump off it down to the lower land (1.5 meters deep roughly). It was like the movies. As we made the jump, dad was dead silent, mom had a panic attack for sure, and I was like: Shit, we’ll miss lunch.
Luckily enough the van on our right side was slowing and didn’t hit us on the side...
Luckily enough where we landed was drivable...
Luckily enough the car didn’t break, no engine damage...
Luckily enough there was a sand ramp 30 meters ahead we could use to get back to the freeway...
And luckily enough no one was hurt.
As we got out of the “ditch” there was an accident 100 meters ahead in which a car had a smashed front as it apparently ran into, or under, some big vehicle. In retrospect, I preferred our luck. Needless to say we didn’t exceed 70 km/hr afterwards. And yes, we made it to lunch (we were invited).
And as usual, here is a drawing of what I think has happened then.