"A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup south of Gainesville on Interstate 75, which had been closed for a time before the accidents because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire that may have been intentionally set." - Huffington Post
I was born in San Francisco, and I lived in the most beautiful city in the world for 41 years. There's a price to be paid for living in paradise; I witnessed a couple of epic pileups in the congested freeways of the Bay Area.
I sympathize with the citizens of Gainesville, this epic pileup is worse than the ones I saw in the City by the Bay. I hope the insurance companies will do their best to expedite the claims. After you have been through Carmaggedon the last thing you need is hassle from your insurance company.
This disaster may have been caused by an arsonist, but there are more good people than bad in this world, and I'm sure there were dozens of incidents where people pulled drivers from their disabled and in some cases burning vehicles.
Life is so uncertain, one moment we can be driving without a care in the world, and the next we may find ourselves in a life or death situation.
Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Read more stories by Robert Paul Reyes. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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