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Evacuation

The news is reporting that around 2 million people fled the coast for high land inward.

I believe it. Saturday night and Sunday traveling from New Orleans to Chattanooga, I've never seen that much traffic. Ever. Even at 4 a.m. when I was just on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, Miss., it was still bumper to bumper. As I drove through upper Alabama, traffic was still extremely steady.

Every time I stopped for gas, the stations were packed. All the license plates read Louisiana or other southern states. I was lucky to find a hotel in Chattanooga, apparently. When I arrived at the hotel, there were several groups of people in the lobby, hoping that someone would call in to cancel their reservations.

Where did these people sleep if they didn't get a room here? I don't know. Where did they head? On to Nashville, maybe even Kentucky or Virginia? Is there room for 2 million coastal people to flee? Hopefully everyone found a safe, dry place to sleep.

Posted by Lara Richards at 11:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)