Terms of Endeerment

As many of you have heard we had a little incident on our trip to Jackson MS. It's not as loopy as Yaakov's story nor were we as clueless as a deer in headlights.
As you know we drove down there after Shabbos. First we dropped off Steve Katz at his nephew’s house in Madison, a little north of Jackson. Then right after that as Ima & I were headed to the hotel, on a pretty quiet road, (Gluckstadt Rd.) all of a sudden a heard & felt a huge thud & saw that the windshield was cracked all over. We just kept goingas we realized it was a deer that must have hit us. I sort of saw an antler & an eyeball to my left. I looked in my side mirror but realized it was no longer there. We got to our hotel around 15 minutes later & saw that the drivers side door, sliding door & the panel over the front tire was damaged, beside the mirror being gone & the windshield cracked all over. Howard went by there to get the mirror. He said the mirror was smashed & there was blood everywhere.
Today we saw that part of the inside panel of the sliding door was knocked out. This morning I spent a lot of time on the phone with the insurance company. Our hotel was right next to a bunch of body shops but they were all closed. All the glass places were closed also. I still would have left the van in Jackson but the rental car places except by the airport were closed also.
In the end, Howard Katz said he would drive it back to Memphis for me. Well if he could then I could & that’s what we did. It drove perfectly fine. Steve Katz wasn’t comfortable with that so he took the train back to Memphis.
So we’ll see what the adjuster decides. There’s a chance they may total the car out. If it works out that I could get it fixed then hopefully it will be similar to how it was with the Saturn but it's a little different this time. We'll see.
But Hashem is good. It could have been a lot worse. I now understand why, in Tefilas Haderech, which we did say, in the 21st century we still make reference to”Chayos Ra’os”.

Here are some pictures of the damage