New Orelans to Mobile in eight hours
Now I know why I don’t evacuate for hurricanes, eight hours of bumper to bumper traffic. I rode out Katrina and the experience was not nearly as awful as evacuating east on I-10. One thing about traveling I-10 at 10 miles per hour is that you get to see thing that you don’t notice when yu drive 70 MPH. I had a conversation with a women in the car along side of me for about two miles of the three hour exit from New Orleans. There was a pick up truck with teenagers in the back singing gospel songs. From Slidell to Biloxi I was behind a car with a dvd player in the back the kids were watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. I got to watch most of it the kid in the back seat kept blocking my view with her head.
I left at 8:00 pm and arrived at 3:45 am I am having a drink writing a post and hoping that my home town isn’t ruined by this storm. I am not upset or even anxious. This is something I have no control over so there is no point in wasting my valuable emotional energy. Hope everyone is safe, and I hope we will all be home soon.
Tags: Gustav, hurricanes
