Saturday, February 18, 2012

Road hazard

Yesterday (Friday 17 February) was very windy all over northern Israel. On our way home from synagogue, we ran over something in the road just after the Karmiel East intersection. It was dark, and so I hadn't seen it at all, and I still don't know what it was. I imagine it was either something that had blown off a truck or perhaps a sign that had been blown over. Whatever it was, however, it apparently had something (nails?) in it, because, a few kilometers later, our front right tire went flat.

I called MEMSI, the Israeli equivalent of the AAA in the States. They came out quite quickly and changed the tire, putting the spare on there instead and warning us not to go over 80 kph on it. So, we continued towards home, taking it quite a bit more slowly than usual. When we were almost all the way up the hill to Tsfat, the BACK right was flat! Since we, of course, had no more spare and it was Friday night, we simply drove home from there VERY slowly. We'll have to get new tires and have someone bring them to us after Shabbat.

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