Friday night I was driving down to Austin. It's a drive I've made many, many times without incident. Until this time.

I was outside the limits of any city in an area with no streetlights and too much traffic for high-beams when it happened. You've heard of potholes, right? This was a pothill: a slight depression followed immediately by a large, sharp bump. I saw it in my headlamps in plenty of time, but what I didn't see was quite what it was. It looked just like another patch in the asphalt dogturd some wit had the nerve to name "Interstate 35." I had no idea of how nasty it was until it was too late.

I was doing about 80 mph. It was on my left side, and it felt like at least one of the wheels left the ground for a brief moment. It tweaked my alignment pretty good (I'm probably lucky that's all it did). No harm, no foul, yet I realise that it could just as easily have been something more dangerous or potentially harmful.

Now I did actually see something in plenty of time. What I didn't see was detail. To be fair, I can't be sure that I would have seen better with HIDs. However, I do think I'll be looking into them with less skepticism in the near future.

 

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Thise are called "frost heaves".

I'm gald you came out of it OK though, sounds like a scary moment.

 

You would have seen better with HID's

 

Drive slower to see more and give yourself time to react.

 

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Frost? What's that?

Actually, I think this was a poorly patched pothole. It was square, and I don't remember it being there last month. Whatever it was, it sure did suck.

 

where are you from? i'm in SAtown....i've made the trip up to austin like at least 60 times and i've never seen anything of this sort

 

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The city that shoots Presidents and the people who shoot Presidents.

 

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Dallas.

 

hahaha...i think i figured that out.