A once in a lifetime experience... literally.

Well, Being on the road has been one great experience, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But when your life is on the line for it, it goes from scary good to scary dangerous.


At eight thirty three this morning, all but two of the crew of nine on the Disturbed crew bus were fast asleep in the pitch black bunks.

All the sudden, there was this violent tossing, everyone got thrown around for about 10 seconds, and we ended going through 50-75 yards of woodland. We missed 10 to 12 inch Trees by inches, and had hit multiple trees that ended up upside down on their leaves and branches.

But, of course, we didn't know any of that. We were locked in a pitch black room with no electricity for a good five minutes. We got down the door to the back room, where we were afraid the drum tech, Nate, could usually be found sitting. We opened the door, and all the bags and cabinets that were above the couches were spilled all over the back room. If anyone had been sitting back there, they would have been dead. Dad usually gets up at about 7:30, 8:00 and he would have been sitting in the back room, watching TV if he hadn't have slept in...

Cabinet doors were everywhere, and shattered glass was a serious concern to all of us, having just gotten out of bed with no shoes or slippers. We were able to clean up the debris a bit in the back room and bunk room and looked out the rear window. We were in the middle of a clearing, about 20 yards from the high way. A few people had pulled off the road to make sure everyone was alright and tried to help as much as possible.

Everyone was calm after Frank yelled that he and Nate were in the front and weren't seriously injured. He said Nate was trapped, and we all expected the worse. Dad looked out the keyhole of the door and saw Nate was crawling up the aisle towards us, he was moving, but something was up.

The lady with the EMS came over to the window and got us all riled up. She seemed more scared than we were.

Once the firefighters got there, they opened up the door to the front lounge and we were able to get unloaded and head out. We found out Nate was actually sitting in the passenger seat and broke his leg. Both he and our driver, Fred, had to get stitches to the head, too.



The rest of the crew has back and neck pain, and I've got my knees wrapped and am enjoying the restrictions of a sling. More updates and pictures to come. The internet here is horrible and my arm is killing me, so when I can, I'll get you pics.

-Maddie