No good deed goes unpunished!

My brother called sunday around noon, and was in Sandy Ore., and needed a ride home to Burns Ore.It seems that he had totaled his 02 ford windstar in Sandy, and was afoot.I had just picked my 94 ford 150 4x4 from the shop, after spending a grand on the front end, and chose to use it to go rescue bro Herb, being as Oregon was having a lot of snow, and we needed to go over Mt Hood, down to Bend before cutting east for Burns. My 45 yr old truck driver son went with me to share the driving, and it turned out that the 4 wheel option was needed. WE got bro Herb picked up, and delivered at his home in Burns by 12:00 Sunday night, and done a quick turn around, and headed back for Bend. About 1:15 we were sailing along in the truck about 60 mph, and out of a flat snowy desert field, comes a full grown elk cow, and we caught her airborne, right square brodside, with the entire grill and bumper. From the time we seen her launch from the shoulder of the road, to impact, was measured in fraction of a second.The score was Ford 150 --0 Elk--0, and neither of the two very cold, and scared humans, were hurt in the least. (Just my feelings)That desert has no traffic out there, most times, and for sure that late on sunday night!Temp was 2 degrees, and ears were burning .After seeing that both the truck, and elk were permanetly dead, we saw headlights coming a mile down the road. Turned out to be a odot snow plow truck. he called a tow truck, and sit there and kept us warm in his cab for 3 hrs, till a tow truck got there, and delivered us to a super 8 motel in Bend. We took a room around 5:00am,and stayed there till my daughter could drive down from Tacoma, and bring us home.We got home for Christmas, and had a great one. Things aren"t as bad as they might seem, when you have a great family, and they belive in taking care of each other. Sure was glad to see my 6 tractors looking out the open front, of my tractor shed as we came up the drive!

Just glad you are safe and uninjured.

Rick

Glad that you & your son are safe. Did you keep the Elk? Tag or no tag, season or no season, I'd of kept the Elk so that I had something to show for my $1000. that just got wasted. (that's damned expensive steaks).

A 60 mph broadside collision, the meat would be bloodshot mush.

(quoted from post at 05:31:55 12/26/12)
A 60 mph broadside collision, the meat would be bloodshot mush.

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Happy to hear you're ok. A good family takes care of each other when TSHTF.

Glad you and your son are ok. And your brother too.

I'd of told them to get a Taxi I'm not going to drive in the snow and ice period,I had to do to get to job for years but now I stay on the farm and if I can't make the trip with a tractor I'm not going.

So use it for hamburger--tell the eaters the meat was picked up already GRILLED, and see if you can get the F150 trim piece heated up to brand in the "Grill" mark. Since the humans survived with no injuries, can have a little pun. Teasing Alert! RN

Here in the northeast there are a lot of collisions with moose. Vehicle occupants rarely escape unscathed. Due to the long legs they usually land pretty hard on the windshield.

When you settle with ins co show them reciepts for the recent repairs it should get you more.

I am just glad that the Lord sent a ore. DOT truck, down that forelorn stretch of road, in a timely manner. Sage brush with Ice on it doesn't make for a warm fire!

Send the plough driver and his boss each a thank you card with a coffee shop gift certificate . Keeps the driver happy and lessens the chance the boss will be angry the ploughing was 3hrs late. Thank the Almighty he sent a warm vehicle to stay in.