Scariest situation you have been in?

I was coming down a mountain in California and the wind picked the left steer tire off the ground. At this point I was in the right hand lane next to a cliff with only a guard rail on my right.

 

superhauler said buying his first trk was scarey,which reminded me driving my first trk solo was my most scariest time.

 

wow that would be scarey,was there snow at the time?

 

Patty he just plain doesn't know. I haven't given up but at some point something has to give.

 

My moment of fear was driving westbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in '77, driving a Ford cabover. Traffic was heavy and the road was pretty narrow with almost no shoulder at all on the two lanes. It was hot, the windows were down (that was air conditioning...), and there was a station wagon full of kids passing slowly in the left lane. The kids were looking up at me all excited and pumping their fists in the universal "Toot your air horn!" gesture. I grinned back at them and reached up and pulled the horn...

... then my right side tires jumped down off the 2-4" drop on the right nonshoulder. Immediately I got both hands on the wheel and cranked to the left to prevent us from getting pulled down into a gully and shot across into the lane with the kids in the station wagon. I remember their eyes were big as saucers and I was staring at DOWN at them from that cabover. It was fortunate that the wagon was just ahead of us and there wasn't anyone back in the trailer area. I only came into the left lane a couple of feet before quickly correcting into my lane, but it could have been bad.

The wagon with the kids rocketed ahead and those saucer eyes were just staring at me the whole time.

I pulled over at the next Howard Johnson's and took a breather. "Lane control. Lane control. Lane control...."....

 

Bone dry conditions

 

Let me guess, eastbound on I-8 from San Diego? It has that gap about halfway down where the wind is howling and can hit you pretty hard broadside...

 

You got it right on the head surprisingly.

 

Lesson of the day kids: Never entertain kids in the cars riding beside you.

 

I thought of that by your description. I came down that at night a couple months ago, seemed calm, had been a touch of wind on top, then all of a sudden came by this 100' gap and got HAMMERED broadside. Didn't get the wheels up but certainly got my attention.