may 14, 2011
We have been getting some good miles the last 2 weeks, (I know, I hate to kinx it)
Our reloads have been coming fairly quick so not a lot of sitting time. We got a load from yuma arizona to blythewood south carolina. Then picked up one going to santa fe springs, california.
Driving through texas will is always pointing out property. 20 ac for $16,500. He really thinks this is where we should spend our twilight years. I promised to write him and maybe visit november through january.
will thinks this is our retirement spot, need our own trailer
boarder patrol
Both loads took us through some of the tornado damage area. Not through Tuscaloosa Alabama, but through Birmingham and Adamsville. I remember taking pictures last year in adamsville because I thought it might be a nice place for all us adams’s to live.
The tornado pictures do not do the damage justice. And we only went past a small one. It was very sobering to drive by and see down trees on the right side of the road, and then on the left side no houses. The tornado went right across the road.
I didn’t get a good parking spot so I didn’t get pictures from the best view, but I think you will agree the damage is devastating.
a block away is the water treatment plant, un touched. And further up the road is a lumber yard, untouched. Can you imagine 2x4’s and 4x4’s flying around. Oh my gosh.
Also got a few pictures of flooding in west memphis arkansas, just on the other side of the mississippi river from memphis tennessee.
Its hard for me to understand the flood waters are so slow. Living in oregon when it floods, it floods fast and usually subsides quickly within a few days or a week. But this is still flooding. And will continue to rise for a few more weeks and then stay.
They are saying it took weeks for the flood the hit its high mark and will take weeks after that to go down. One news reporter said the mississippi flood waters in Louisiana should subside just in time for hurricane season. Wow.
We are driving on I40 west bound. It had been closed for about 2 weeks I think, because of the flooding. Glad its open now. It was a 150 mile detour.
So all in all, oregon is not such a bad place. No earthquakes, no hurricanes, no slow moving floods, no killer snow storms.
Just rain.
In case you want to attend the oregon rain festival it is held, jan 1 – dec 31. Well that’s not fair, we do get about 60 days of no rain. But its normal rain, not this crazy rain out here. And people know how to drive in the rain. they don’t stop in the middle of the road. They don’t put the blinkers on and drive 10 mph. they don’t all pile up and stop under the over pass waiting for it to stop, (because it isnt going to).
Love and miss you all.
