Sweet Catastrophe

I remember hurricane season during my senior year being particularly active. Of course, my car wreck fell during this time and I was stuck driving my dad’s truck for most of it. He conveniently forgot to mention that sometimes, the windshield wipers just randomly stop working. Thanks dad.

After I got my car back, I remember driving to school in the middle of a hurricane one morning. I literally couldn’t see the hood of my car. I tried pulling into the far right lane so other cars could go around me and I could follow them, but instead they all pulled in behind me. It’s a miracle that I made it to school alive. There are about 7 red lights between my house and my high school and I only ever saw the first two. I must’ve been driving 5 miles an hour…

I got to the parking lot and there were teachers running all over the place, rushing people inside, where we were ushered up against walls in various hallways. I think we were there for three hours before they deemed it safe enough to bring the buses back and just let people go home.

That car drive was absolute craziness though. To this day I still don’t understand how I made it without hitting anything. I’m not at all exaggerating when I say I only ever saw the first two traffic lights.

There’s no telling what I passed in all that wind and rain–what I didn’t see.

The Mist by Stephen King calls up that idea of what’s in the unknown. A group of townspeople are trapped in a local grocery store by an overwhelming mist. It’s not long before they realize there’s something in the mist…something terrifying, something not from around here.

It releases November 21st. I’m thinking about taking my mom to see it. We love everything Stephen King.