Mobile 4 has been forcibly retired. There was an "incident" this afternoon as I was trying to leave Atlanta for my vacation trip and meet up with the family in Destin, Florida. About 15-20 miles south of Atlanta Hartsfield, on I-85, I entered into a very nasty cell of bad weather. It was a typical bad afternoon shower, and it was raining down harder than it was draining off the interstate. I was in the fast lane, making so-so progress up to this point, but it was coming down heavy and I didn't like the way things felt, so I moved over one lane and tried to slow up some, but I didn't want to slow up so fast that I caused an accident from the rear, so it was a game of not going so fast to get out of control, and not going too slow to cause a car to hit you from behind. Well? I lost the game. With no warning, the back end of my car easily swayed off to the right. I let up on the gas, and looked for a way to steer out of it, but it was very clear that I had no control. In no time, the rear end picked up speed and swung around counter-clockwise and began a 360? turn. I ended up slamming, driver's side first, into the cement median wall where my car finally came to rest. I pulled my car up very slightly to make sure it was not sitting cockeyed, and got out to survey the damage. To me, it was horrifying, but I was about to soon find out how little damage was actually done to the car. I got back in the car and dialed 911, and as I listened to the phone ring, and waited for an answer, without warning, not more than 2 minutes after my car came to rest? a car struck me dead-on from behind. The force of the impact sent me flailing (unlike before, I was seat-belt-less at this point in time) and shattered the rear window and driver's side window, and even buckled the body of the car. I looked back into my backseat to see the other person's car where my trunk used to be. I climbed out the driver's side window and saw how bad things were. Luckily, the other person's car's airbags deployed, and no one in the car seemed to be hurt too bad. I was numb more than anything, but I was okay, aside from some bruises and scrapes and sore muscles. I called several friends, but nobody was answering. Luckily my brother Matt finally answered the call, and came down and helped me unload and haul back my luggage and misc trip crap. The car was totaled, and I had to abort my vacation trip, at least for right now. Now, it's time to regroup, say thanks to some karma (seeing as how I'm not dead and all), and move on with life, and start looking for Mobile 5.

This is Mobile 4 being pulled up out of the emergency lane where the car got hit. 600 X 450 44 KB	Mobile 4 600 X 450 50 KB	Me and Mobile 4 600 X 450 40 KB	Mobile 4... and me sticking halfway out the passenger's window getting out the remainder of my stuff from the car... since the doors don't work anymore. 600 X 450 46 KB
My legs and Mobile 4 again. 600 X 450 34 KB	A closeup of the trunk, and a small TV that I had in there that got trapped inside 600 X 450 47 KB	Mobile 4 600 X 450 38 KB	Mobile 4... you can see where the frame is bent outwards around the driver's side door from the rear impact. 600 X 450 33 KB