Another adventure

Yesterday  we went for a drive. As the sun set, and it started to get dark, we headed south of hwy 44 on hwy#59 toward Bird's Hill Park.  Getting closer to Garven Rd. we saw all sorts of tail lights , and realized that cars weres stopped and lining up at the Garven Rd lights.  Getting closer, we discovered that the highway was closed and police were directing everyone east onto Garven Rd. With the backup and the need to merge three lanes into one, it was quite dark by the time we made the turn.  Now, we knew that, eventually, passing the south side of the park, we would hit hwy #207.  But that was a long way down the road, so when everyone ahead of us turned south  down a paved road, we just followed along.  Someone had to know where we were going--right? The traffic was so solid that a car sitting on a driveway to the right of us had no chance of ever pulling onto the road across traffic.  So picture literally hundreds of cars blindly driving down a country road in the dark.  I kept wondering what people in the houses we passed were seeing and thinking.  Eventually the paved road turned to gravel, and very dusty, but everyone kept trucking along,  as many behind us as in front.  I could see the lights of the city to the right and realized we were a fair way south of where we had wanted to be.  Suddenly, ahead of us a group of young people in safety vests, and with ATV's, were blocking the road and waving everyone to make a left hand turn.  And like a bunch of sheep, everyone turned left, and kept going down even more gravel road.  But, in the far distance, we could see what appeared to be cars  heading south-- perhaps a main road?  Yes!  We are saved!  A paved road heading yet further south.  At this point we had no idea where we were, but took comfort in knowing that there were a heck of a lot of other people in the same predicament.  Eventually I saw a sign stating that we were approaching hwy #15 ( Dugald Road).  Turned out that we were on hwy #207, exactly where we would have been if we'd just stayed on Garven Rd in the first place--and it would have been paved all of the way.

We stayed up to see the local news, in hopes we could find out what had happened, and found out that an RCMP cruiser had been in collison with a motorcycle on the floodway bridge. Then in the paper this morning found out that the collision had ended a high speed chase between the RCMP and a group of motorcyclists.  A high speed chase through all that beach traffic coming home on Sunday evening?!?  I'm sure grateful that we saw the after effects and weren't in the wrong spot at the wrong time.