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Wow. Makes you want to stay at home!
I've got something similar to share. This last Sunday, my parents and my brother and sister-in-law (and their unborn baby) headed up one of the canyons over Salt Lake City for lunch. (Any SLC'ers here, they were going up Big Cottonwood to eat at the Silver Fork Lodge.) For most of the way, the road has sheer rock one side and sheer cliff on the other--about a 100 foot drop. They were behind a snowplow, which was spitting out sand and salt and inching its way up the hill. They were grumbling about it.
At some point, on an outside corner, an SUV coming down the mountain lost control and didn't turn. It smashed into the side of the snowplow and ground up the whole front end against and between the huge snowplow tires. The family inside the SUV was shaken but not stirred, and the accident got sorted out in due time.
Here's the thing, though. If that plow had been just a few feet ahead of where it was, the SUV would have hit my family's car and both cars would have been over the cliff. Even if they'd missed my folks, the SUV surely would have gone over the edge, with a couple in their 30's and an 8 year old little girl in it.
Near misses are scary.
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