I pulled over on the highway to help an elderly couple with a flat tire — just a tiny act of kindness, or so I thought. A week later, my mom was yelling at me on the phone: “STUART! Why didn’t you tell me? Turn on the TV. NOW.” That’s when my world completely turned upside down.

The rain on I-95 wasn’t just falling—it was a full-scale assault on everything in its path. A horizontal wall of grey liquid battered the highway, blurring lane markings and turning […]