Overnight

I woke up to the sound of people talking outside early Sunday morning. I rolled over to the other side of the bed to look at the clock, it read 2:45 a.m. I rolled back over and got out of bed. I looked out the window and saw about 15-20 people standing on the sidewalk across the street. I looked down the street and saw a firetruck. I could only see the firetruck. I had no idea what was going on.

I got back into bed and tried to go back to sleep. I couldn't get back to a solid sleep. The people across the street were really talking loud. I could have shut the windows and turned on the fan in my bedroom, but I didn't want to. The night air was cool. About a half hour later or so the people across the street finally went home. Even though it was quiet again, I really couldn't sleep. I was still drifting in and out of sleep.

I woke up again around 4 a.m. and thought of just starting my run early. I stayed in bed and drifted off into sleep until 5 a.m. Looking at the clock again, I decided that was enough. Time to get out of bed and start the day. I waited for my husband to come home from work before starting my run. When he got home shortly after 6 a.m., I asked what happened a couple of houses over. He said that a car ran through a stop sign, proceeded into the intersection and ended up driving into a house.

I wanted to see what the house looked like. I didn't get a good view when I was backing out of my driveway Monday morning. As I was heading to the grocery store in the afternoon, I passed the house. There was a huge hole in the front of the house. It was boarded up with wood, but you could see all of the damage.

Before this happened, I felt bad for the people living there. Their house is across the street from a fairly busy t-intersection. At night, vehicle headlights shining into the front windows on the house. They always have their shades closed, even during the day. Besides headlights shining into their window every night, they had a person drive a car into the front of their house Sunday morning. How awful. I haven't read anything about the crash. I hope no one was hurt. A house can always be fixed, but not people.