Leaving!!

After we realized how big Katrina had gotten we started gathering and packing. I wasn't sure what mom and dad wanted to take. Medicine, important insurance papers, a few clothes; I think we all kind of went in shock. My dad wanted to take some new tools that he had just bought. I think my mom thought that he was loading all of the tools so she didn't take much. My dad did take the very old portraits of relatives and I think my mom picked up a few things. And of course they loaded some coolers with the food from the frig. At one of the stops mom noticed how empty the truck was and said we could have brought more but by then it was too late. Oh well.
Now one of the reasons that we had went to Mississippi was because my dad had some overhead lights and electirical wire that Bob could have. He had also mentioned that he had a big stainless steel sink, all of this for our big shop. On Saturday they had loaded Kevin's truck and then here comes the Big Sink. Alrighty then it was a big sink, we strapped it down and it was as long as the truck bed. It has three sinks that are attached together. BIG, did I say big. It was big, when I get the pictures back I will post them on the blog. To say the least when we were going down the road we got quite a few double takes. I wonder what everyone thought. "Looky there! There goes a guy who is taking the Kitchen Sink with him!!"
Dad decided to take the back roads. A few other people did also, but definitely not as many as there would have been on the main roads. We followed dad down the road, I kept looking through the back window just thinking that there was one big, huge, hurricane coming. When we stopped to get gas the other people were in a daze also, most of the them had no destination. Town after town they had stopped and there were not any hotel rooms to be had. At one of the last stops we made after we had entered Arkansas, the gas station attendent had told people that they would probably have to go to Little Rock for a hotel room. I felt bad for them. But alas as the days went by, I realized that they were some of the lucky ones.