We went to bed with the fan full blast, and were snoring away when a huge crash woke us up at 2 am. For an instant I thought it was THE earthquake, then we both thought a tree had crashed into our garage or house. I went outside and my neighbor was there and we saw a car across the parkway. He's a doctor so he asked several times if she needed help, as we could hear it was a woman. She was talking on her cell, and seemed drunk, and finally I yelled up to my husband to call 911. A bunch of police cars came and then an ambulance, which took her away, though she was still able to talk and hopefully was unharmed. Then we could hear the police trying to figure out what had happened. A bumper was in the middle of the road by our house, and two cars hit it before it got dragged out of the way. This morning there are blue flags everywhere and a caution tape surrounding the area. She must have been coming down our street, hit a tree, then crashed through the parkway and ended up facing the wrong way on the street below. After we finally got back to sleep at 3 am a huge something took the car away and made a racket, so we both feel gnarly this morning. We'll never know what happened, exactly, but we just hope there is not an injured tree just waiting to come down on one of our houses later.
I plan to spend the rest of the day recouperating. I couldn't help, lying awake after the accident, thinking if it had been one of my kids. I was spooked. There but for the grace of god...........
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