Slip Sliding Away

No pictures--too busy hanging on to be able to find my camera. Because this weekend is the annual State School Board Conference in Albuquerque, Ed & I drove over yesterday afternoon after my last class at 3:00. By that time it was already snowing again in Capitan. but folks about 30 minutes ahead of us saide the roads weren't too bad yet. Boy, were they wrong! We got just the other side of Carrizozo (about 35 miles from home or so) & almost found ourselves in the middle of a 15-car pile up. There is a really steep hill there after quite a few curves, and the cars coming toward us were not able to get up the hill very well and started sliding all over the road. Then a car that zoomed around us (because we were going less than the posted 65 mph) came upon the crowd, couldn't stop, and crashed head first into the side of the mountain. By the time we got there and managed to get our car back into control after sliding all over the place, mostly sideways, there were plenty of people out helping, so we just maneuvered through the jam & kept going. The roads were like that all the way to I-25 until we were just out of Albuquerque. Whew! We were certainly glad to get here safe and sound. By the time we leave Sat. afternoon, this state-wide storm is supposed to have moved on.