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We Challenge the Hurricane in the Big Rig

allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2012 in General Discussion
At 10am we leave Greer, SC for Laredo.

Normally we take I 10 from Mobile all the way to San Antonio.
That isn't looking too good right now. We will get to central Louisiana at 10pm and that hurricane should be centered on I 10 about that time.

Hopefully I can talk my partner into taking I 20 instead, it is parallel to I 10 and about 100 miles north of it. Partner is a real knucklehead so who knows what route he will take.

I am certain that sections of I 10 will be closed today due to flooding.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Please be careful, driving a 53 foot wind sail trailer perpendicular to hurricanes is a good way to get flipped over on your side.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    Allen--Why not take l-20 to Dallas..Then 1-35 all the way to Laredo [?][?]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That looks like a good route footlong.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    Allen--Thats the route all beaners take to South Carolina [:(!][:(!]

    l see one or two "Tornado Lines" busses coming thru Augusta weekly[:(][:(]

    Also my route from Ft Gordon to Ft Hood during my Army days..


    Be safe AL
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    footlong has a good idea. However, you could probably run through Carthage from I-20, but as I remember that stretch from about 2005, it was somewhat slow, then into Henderson, Jacksonville, and Palestine, and pick-up 79 south of there into Round Rock at I-35.

    Old-Colts and some of the other members here might be familiar with some of these roads, too, if you want a shorter route, that is. As you would know, Johnny Law can be bad running such routes, and he used to be most especially bad in Hearne. Good luck to you and your partner, Allen!
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  • bamafanbamafan Member Posts: 4,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Parts of I-10 is closed throughout New Orleans. I'd take the 1-20 route if it was me.
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  • jeffb1911jeffb1911 Member Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think footlong has the best idea. When you get to Lindale, stop by and say hi! i'll be on duty from 4-midnight. We have several great places to eat.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live 2 miles from I-10,and I take I 20 when going to San Angelo for deer hunting,much better roads,and no Achaffilaya to contend with...that stretch always has a problem....
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be safe Allen... [;)]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Am now in Laredo safe and sound. We did take I 20 across Miss. and Louisiana, crossed through the storm from 9pm to midnight.
    Fairly heavy rain but not too bad.

    At the Texas border I cut down US 59 to Houston and then back to I10.

    Parts of I 10 and I55 in Louisiana were closed due to flooding.

    We head right back in 15 minutes, now, we go back on I 10 and let the guys on I 20 eat the storm.
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    Am now in Laredo safe and sound. We did take I 20 across Miss. and Louisiana, crossed through the storm from 9pm to midnight.
    Fairly heavy rain but not too bad.

    At the Texas border I cut down US 59 to Houston and then back to I10.

    Parts of I 10 and I55 in Louisiana were closed due to flooding.

    We head right back in 15 minutes, now, we go back on I 10 and let the guys on I 20 eat the storm.


    That is a good route with good highways. I've run the other route via highway 79 in my diesel pusher. Texas just has some great roads.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    kimi you aren't kidding Texas has the best highways in the country.
    Plus fantastic rest areas.

    While my home state, Georgia, closes down Interstate rest areas and can't afford to mow the grass in the others, Texas builds beautiful new rest areas with MUSEUMS in them. Nice museums about the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto etc.
    Plus in Texas, the rest areas are manned around the clock x 365 days.
    A janitor on duty constantly at EVERY rest area and those bathrooms are clean and the lawns look like a putting green.

    I love Texas.
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Allen, I don't know if you know it or not, but Nacogdoches is the oldest town in Texas, and when you cut across Highway 21 (Douglas Road) at 'Doches, you were at the Foretravel motorhome factory, which was built on land where I hunted rabbits with one of my cousins when we were kids. My kinfolks lived right in that very area. I went to HS there for a short while myself.

    Glad you folks made it to Laredo safely. Have a safe return trip as well.
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