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To: wbill
When a what amounts to a 100-mile wide tornado heads your way, you bug the hell out. What's there to think about?

You do that HOW with flights and ferries cancelled? Dirt bike?

15 posted on 09/01/2009 2:19:27 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86
You do that HOW with flights and ferries cancelled? Dirt bike?

I was in Wilsonville, AL when hurricane Ivan came ashore. We finished dinner at 6:30 PM and found "shelter" notices taped to our hotel room doors. I called company travel and ordered a Hertz rental car to drive from Birmingham, AL to Salt Lake City, UT. My colleague dropped me at the airport at 10:30 PM EDT. I drove to Clarksville, TN and stopped to get some sleep. The next morning I continued until reaching Grand Island, NE. More sleep. Continued to SLC. Arrived at the airport at 8:20 PM MDT. 1800 miles point to point.

The dirt bike option sounds fun. I was in a Mazda6 for that drive. The Versys with some Pirelli MT60 Corsa tires might be just the ticket. My old DR650SE or a KLR650 with a big desert gas tank would be suitable as well.

16 posted on 09/01/2009 2:39:39 PM PDT by Myrddin
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