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Jul. 13th, 2012 03:23 amAnd so last Sunday, I wrapped up a considerable road trip, of considerable length. In retrospect, it was chock full of fun, mayhem, madness, chaos, and destruction.
Here are the chaotic bits:
-On the first Saturday, I spent most of that in Virginia, dodging downed trees and power outages due to a cluster of thunderstorms that went through Friday night. There was also briefly another thunderstorm, complete with hail. This went on for about 300 miles and didn't stop until south of Richmond.
-At a motel in South Carolina, I woke up to find the Shoney's next door, had burned down overnight. As it had been closed down for over a year with no gas or electric, the fire is being ruled as "suspicious". We were close enough that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nozomichan05 was lightly covered in ash; nothing a car wash couldn't fix. The fire started about 5AM-ish; when I checked out around 10AM-ish the fire trucks were just finishing up.
-That same morning, as soon as I got on I-95, traffic came to a stop due to an accident in which a car collided with a tree. One person in critical condition, two fatalities.
-Stopped at a hotel in Tennessee. Apparently a thunderstorm came through earlier, knocked out power to a significant area, and wreaked havoc on a bunch of boats in a nearby lake, flipping them over or sinking them. Parts of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park were closed due to downed trees.
-While on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Sunday, as I was about 60 miles from the northern end, yet another thunderstorm had passed through and knocked over some trees, blocking the road. It must have just happened, because there was no sign of any park rangers near it. I decided it was time to call it a trip and go home in earnest. I ended up encountering the thunderstorm in question for a few miles, and brushed against another one further north.
-As my body had readjusted to waking up before noon because of this trip, staying up until 2AM had become too much to ask. I stopped at a rest area to sleep for about an hour. Then, I made a final and energetic push home, only to find across the road from my neighborhood, fire trucks were everywhere. The sawmill there had caught fire.
-Florida was surprisingly calm overall, aside from a thunderstorm that wasn't out of the ordinary. Maybe I should have stayed there a bit longer.
Aside from all that, it was a pretty good road trip.
Here are the chaotic bits:
-On the first Saturday, I spent most of that in Virginia, dodging downed trees and power outages due to a cluster of thunderstorms that went through Friday night. There was also briefly another thunderstorm, complete with hail. This went on for about 300 miles and didn't stop until south of Richmond.
-At a motel in South Carolina, I woke up to find the Shoney's next door, had burned down overnight. As it had been closed down for over a year with no gas or electric, the fire is being ruled as "suspicious". We were close enough that
nozomichan05 was lightly covered in ash; nothing a car wash couldn't fix. The fire started about 5AM-ish; when I checked out around 10AM-ish the fire trucks were just finishing up.-That same morning, as soon as I got on I-95, traffic came to a stop due to an accident in which a car collided with a tree. One person in critical condition, two fatalities.
-Stopped at a hotel in Tennessee. Apparently a thunderstorm came through earlier, knocked out power to a significant area, and wreaked havoc on a bunch of boats in a nearby lake, flipping them over or sinking them. Parts of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park were closed due to downed trees.
-While on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Sunday, as I was about 60 miles from the northern end, yet another thunderstorm had passed through and knocked over some trees, blocking the road. It must have just happened, because there was no sign of any park rangers near it. I decided it was time to call it a trip and go home in earnest. I ended up encountering the thunderstorm in question for a few miles, and brushed against another one further north.
-As my body had readjusted to waking up before noon because of this trip, staying up until 2AM had become too much to ask. I stopped at a rest area to sleep for about an hour. Then, I made a final and energetic push home, only to find across the road from my neighborhood, fire trucks were everywhere. The sawmill there had caught fire.
-Florida was surprisingly calm overall, aside from a thunderstorm that wasn't out of the ordinary. Maybe I should have stayed there a bit longer.
Aside from all that, it was a pretty good road trip.
