And Now with Pictures

[muninnhuginn]

Just a handful of cheerful snaps frompictures from the middle of the night before last.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

That's scary. If you had been sitting there... Houses feel more solid than that. But I guess they're not.

[muninnhuginn]

An hour earlier I was sitting there. The cat, we think, still was at the time of the accident.

Our house is old enough and on a busy enough road--and near a railway line--that I feel its tendency to shift as much as I feel its strength. But, yeah, I'm a little nonplussed to have seen how much harm a Vauxhall Nova can do. The speed's the crucial thing--the speed cameras caught the car doing 90mph prior to the crash.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

90mph? That's insane. Really. I hope he never gets the chance to do that again.

I hope the shock is wearing off by now. Though, even then, I guess that the physical repairs will be a long and tiresome slog.

Shock?

[muninnhuginn]

M had a bout of shivering after we got back to bed the night it happened. Looby Loo has just been violently sick.

I have the sort of coping mechanisms (to excess with harmful health effects) that mean I've booked a notional future date when I can collapse messily. It's at least a couple of months hence, if not further off, and I'll deal with the shock then. Right now, I feel, if I feel much at all, perky and energetic--and immensely positive.

It's too bizarre for any other reaction.

Re: Shock?

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised they've both reacted like that. You can, too, you know. Coping isn't compulsory, and certainly not to the extent where it hurts you.

Re: Shock?

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I've just found your journal thanks to Ross-from-M's-work - heard M talking about the crash on Wednesday night and I wanted to say, jeezus, and I hope the insurers come through for you.

Oh and I can relate to the whole dysfunctional coping mechanisms thing too..

Re: Shock?

[muninnhuginn]

Thanks. We'll get through it. Dusty, grimy and a little chilly.

90?!?

[armb.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've seen a report of someone doing three times the speed limit before.
(Though I'd like to know how fast this car (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4493713.stm) was doing to get through a first floor bedroom wall.)

Re: 90?!?

[muninnhuginn]

Well, it's only possible I suppose in 20, 30 and possible 40 mph areas.

But, yeah, 90.

That car in Hampshire is bizarre tho'.

Re: 90?!?

[armb.livejournal.com]

I've never owned a car that would do 120 (the Alfa would when new according to its handbook), but there are a few cars that would do 210 on an empty motorway, or 180 on a 60mph road if you were prepared to blindly assume nothing was coming the other way for miles.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Looks as if the culprit was lucky to be able to walk away!

And the geometry of the crash looks odd - was it really the back of the Nova that went through the bay window? I suspect your car may have given its life to save the house from more serious damage...

Back end, it was

[muninnhuginn]

Yup, between the impact against our car and our window, it spun round (the police traced the skid marks). The Skoda saved next door from much greater damage plus, quite possibly, our lives (the left-hand window upstairs is our bedroom and the end of the futon's against the wall below the window).

We love Skoda's, tho' not previously because of their life-preserving properties.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

Ouchie. Like I said, if you need anything, just give me a bell.

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you.

[emperor]

[here via a cow-orker of yours]

Yikes, that looks doubleplusungood. I'm glad the people (and cats ;) seem mostly intact.

[emperor]

Said person informs me you're actually their cow-orkers other half. Err, I'll fetch my coat (and stop scribbling crap over LJ, I promise!)

[muninnhuginn]

Not a mistake people ever make in person--mixing M and myself up ;-)

Thanks for your kind thoughts.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Crikey. Scary stuff indeed. If there's anything I can do, let me know.

[muninnhuginn]

Thanks.