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bobsallyh
Sep 09, 2018Explorer II
Like mlburst said, don't WAIT for mandatory evacuation to be in place. Don't remember what year, but in the 90's, a beautiful Wednesday morning I walked up to the store for the morning paper. For several days each morning I would converse with a guy from Charlotte. I knew what day he was due to leave but this morning he was packing it in. I asked him what he was doing and he said that "they had issued a voluntary evacuation and he was outta of there. He asked if we had ever been run out, which all the years we had been coming we never had. He described the situation, I went down to the rig, told my wife we were packing it in. A friend that we had met years before from the ST. Louis area came down and inquired what I was doing. Told him and he quickly named me "throw and go Bob". The next season we get down there, and he comes grinning. He said if you ever leave under a voluntary evacuation, make sure I'm on your bumper"! What a story. When it became mandatory he left. It was in the morning, 12 hours later he was all the way to Camping World on RT 501. Spent the night there, than the next morning headed on East. Finally got a bite to eat in Knoxville, TN. He said "NEVER AGAIN"! We simply drove out like any other time and headed Northwest.
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