"But why did we have to leave her?" Tori cries.
"Sweetheart…remember the story "Trail of Tears" and how our people had to make that long trip to the west?" Shyanna asks.
"Yes", Catori replies.
"And remember how hard the trip was and how some of our people just couldn't make it? Mahala was sick she knew that eventually you and I would have to run. Remember how we had to run from the reservation because of all the dead spirits that were coming after us?" Shyanna asks.
"Mahala was already very sick with diabetes; and both of her legs…" Shyanna takes a small gulp at the thought of their Nana being left in the cul de sac to drown, "…were already gone; she just wouldn't have been able to keep up."
Catori looks out of her side view mirror as the cul de sac gets smaller and smaller; she begins to slow down her tears a little, "But now we have no family no blood left, Nana was the last of our family our people."
Shyanna takes one hand off the steering wheel to the midnight black FJ Cruiser and places it on her sister's hand, "We still have each other Catori and at this present moment I am most grateful."
Tori looks back at her older sister and places her hand on top of hers as a way of thanking her for bringing focus back to what's most important.
The winds begin to pick up as the cul de sac convoy flees from what Daryl considers to be serious storm if not a hurricane. They're only 5-6 miles out going up I-85 when they begin to approach a sign on the side of the road, "CAUTION HIGH WINDS ON BRIDGE WHEN FLASHING", there's no need for flashing lights; these survivors already knew they were about to encounter their first real brush with mother nature since civilization has ended.
The bridge, less than a mile long, was clearly in disrepair years before the outbreak. Twenty yards before the actual bridge, Tyreese double takes a broken detour sign resting on the side of the road that says, "BRIDGE CLOSED FOR REPAIR", with that Tyreese tells Daryl,
"Hey we need to get across this thing quick, I just saw a sign down there that says the bridge was closed for repairs."
"Shit, can't we ever get a break?" Daryl gripes, "Roll down your window and signal to people behind us about the sign."
Tyreese rolls down his window and begin to waves his hand down toward the sign hoping that the people in back will do the same.
Maggie's in the passenger seat of the pickup with Sasha who has her head on Maggie's shoulder trying to get some sleep. As Maggie watches the scenery out of her window she begins to doze off herself when suddenly she spots Tyreese's arm waving and point toward the side of the road. She sits up abruptly waking Sasha up in the process.
Glenn looks over at Maggie anxiously and asks, "What's wrong?" He then notices the moving truck speeding up as it starts to cross the bridge.
"Oh shit, there's a sign on the side of the road that says bridge closed for repairs." She tells him.
Maggie immediately rolls down her window and starts waving her hand just like Tyreese had done.
Sasha opens the middle window to the cabin, "Hold on tight Bob!"
Michonne's sitting in the passenger seat when she sees Maggie waving her hand and pointing to the side of the road; she sees the sign then watches as both Daryl and Glenn speed up.
"Why the hell are they speeding?". Rick turns and notices the frightened look on Michonne's face, "What?"
She goes to unlock her seatbelt but again forgets the soreness of her arms, "Carl quick, open your window on my side and wave your arm to point at the sign coming up", She looks at Rick, "There's a sign up ahead that says the bridge is closed for repairs."
As Carl rolls down his window; Rick watches him wave his hand then he looks out his side-view mirror to see if the driver in back notices the sign.
He waits a sixty seconds then says, "Carl, close the window." Then he increases his speed as he approaches the bridge.
A light but steady rain begins to fall while all of the vehicles are speeding up as they begin to cross, Shyanna and Catori are the last ones to start crossing; and they didn't not receive the warning about the bridge from the cars in front of them.
As the convoy quickly tries to cross the rundown bridge, a blast of 40 mph storm winds whips through the bridge causing the family in a Chevy Sonic; in the middle of the convoy, to losing control. The driver of the Sonic is unable to regain control and the light weight Sonic hydro-planes out of control crashing in to both vehicles behind it thus creating the beginnings of a major car pile-up.
The Sonic ends its hydro-plane by crashing in to the cement wall barrier producing a large hole in the wall of the bridge that is now working as a vacuum evoking storm winds below to suck down any light weight vehicles that happen to roll past it.
Shyanna, witnessing the car pileup and the whole in the wall barrier, speeds up in order to pass by the other four cars as they succumb to the chain reaction of the Chevy Sonic; "Hold on Tori!"
The FJ Cruiser speeds past the four cars by going to the right side of the bridge but, vehicle number four gets panics and does a sharp turn hitting Shyanna and her sister; the Cruiser grazes along the right side of the cement wall barrier of the bridge.
Daryl looks in his review mirror and sees the melee that's taking place behind Rick's SUV as he exits the bridge. He switches back and forth from the road and review mirror as the Chevy Sonic as well as the three cars behind it, fall off the bridge through the hole.
"Holy Shit!" Daryl responds, in despair and astoundment.
Maggie and Sasha turn their heads around and watch helplessly as the cars behind Rick; fall through the hole in the bridge. They gasp in horror as they see the vehicles fall out of site.
Rick, Michonne and Carl are aghast as they watch the cars behind them, fall in to the raging waters underneath the bridge. Michonne shakes her head, "This is unreal".
One of the cars hits the back of Shyannas' truck thrusting her back in to position with the convoy as they approach the exit to the bridge.
The count for the cul de sac caravan is now down to six instead of its original nine.