Kelly, Hallie and I packed things up this morning for a daylong trip to the zoo. We were on our way down the road when I remembered we didn’t grab a large umbrella we meant to take. We went back to the house and a few minutes later, we were on way again.

Our trip hit a major snag when traffic ground to a halt on U.S. 1 near Cary Parkway. Mere minutes before, a van collided with a parked car in a fiery crash. Had I not turned the car around for the missing umbrella, we may have been in the exact spot where the crash occured.
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