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The damage:
...that's it. It could turn out to to be much more then just "it," but hopefully not.
in this pic and behind me:
one fire truck
one bylaw officer
three police cars
Fortis (light repair) truck
one sander
one tow truck
one other old guy who ran over the post after I knocked it over. He saved my ass, I will explain that in a second.
one outrageously hot girl who stopped to help. I unfortunately was too worried about my car to get her number. Like, she was crazy hot. girlfriend material haha
You can see the cop talking to me in the shadows on the bottom. I didn't think street lights fell over that easy, it ripped right out of the ground and did no damage to my car. But, it fell backwards onto the road and started bouncing around (it got probably a good ten feet of air, which includes the internet exagerration factor so it was more like the entire 900 pound thing was about six feet off the ground) and now it is bent halfway up its length. While it was laying across the road, this old guy when into a four wheel slide and smashed up the front of his car and his radiator but he kept driving over it and then got stuck on top of it. It was kinda my fault, but when you have a 19 year old kid and a 85 year old man in the same accident doing the same thing (sliding out of control) odds are the roads just sucked complete ass.. since I wasn't speeding and old people always go 15 under the limit, which was 50km/h (30mph and he was probably going about 22)
Realizing people were even dumber then I thought (at about the same time I had an epiphany and realized I was way dumber then I thought), I ran up to start telling people to slow down since its a blind corner, but I almost got run over by some tool in a minivan and everybody else started sliding all over the place anyway. You can see the tracks from the van in question to the left of the black car, behind mine. Barely. The fact that three cars went completely out of control here probably helped with me not getting any tickets.
Then they shut down and rerouted traffic. I got about ten phone calls in 5 minutes wondering what was going on, condolences from some and jibs and jabs from buddies, you know how it is. The tunnel was probably icier then it has ever been in three years, I was only going 50 and my back end started sliding out aiming me towards the massive concerete wall you see on the right, so I steered the other way but at this point I was on sheer hockey rink ice so there was nothing I could do but hit the curb and the post.
Damage to my car? The body is totally fine! Hitting a light post does fuck all do your car, apparently. No damage to anything painted, not even a crack in the bumper, nothing, no scratches even. The only damage you can see in the first pic, the front wheel is about 4" behind where it usually is and the rim is wrecked. I'm thinking lower control arm and an axle so far, but at least I can give to my mechanic (who I trust) instead of a body shop (and I don't trust any of them in this town). I might have wrecked the strut too, but I have new ones on the way anyways, and the part I am most worried about is my differential. Steering is fine, somehow.
The adrenaline rush is worth it right now, but I expect a straight haymaker to my pocketbook coming tomorrow morning when I find out the extent of the mechanical damage, and apparently those street lights are really, really expensive, so that will probably hurt too.
Apparently, I was lucky. It could have played out more like this:
I'm not asking for a pity party, but sharing helps me feel better. 
1995 Eagle Talon ESi
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don't look too bad, then as I'm reading, I catch a glimpse of the 3rd pic and thought thats what the rest of the car looked like! 
Then I saw the header... 
