I went out driving last night. Terrible conditions for it, but I'm glad I did. Most gas stations were closed or out of gas; had to go a ways out of town to finally find some, and once there, the lines were long.
When I started, most of the traffic lights were out. A lot of people don't know what to do in that situation and just blasted on through. Thankfully I didn't see any accidents. Over the course of the night, crews were powering up the traffic lights with generators. I had several rides into the area directly his by the tornadoes. Trees down in every direction, fallen onto buildings, across the roads, ripping down lines and anything attached to them, traffic lights ripped off. some people 'trapped' at their houses due to trees down across their driveways. I gave a ride to one couple that had a tree fall into and impale their car; who said that was the best outcome otherwise a change in wind direction would have landed a tree in their house.
One group late at night ran out of gas while driving around trying to find gas. They were stuck at a gas station. I just went to a place that I knew had gas, in a direction they hadn't gone, and brought back some gas for them, saving them a lot of time, money, and effort over their original plan of going across town, to get another vehicle, etc.
There's a 4-lane divided canopy road right next to the area that was hardest hit. 2 of the lanes were entirely
covered in trees. just a solid wall of fallen trees. and on the other side, there were fallen trees from the median, that people had cut a gap through. So this entire divided 4 lane road, with only a single passable lane in a single direction. It was wild.
In the area with the power or cable line that I drove into while coming home immediately after the storm, the entire road was blocked off.
It was a worse situation than most hurricanes that have hit since I've been here.
>>3141 My mom's yard guy does that. He's got a young son, probably 2ish, who rides around on his mower with him. The kid seems to enjoy it.
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