Update
On our first three days of travelling home
the landscape changed dramatically.
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| Saguaro Cactus along the road in Arizona |
From the dry cactus desert of Arizona.....
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| The Scrap Metal Roadrunner of Las Cruses, NM |
.... to parched ranch land in New Mexico,
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| Cattle on ranch land |
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| Flowering Agave |
... and western Texas.
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| Oil pump |
As soon as we crossed Dallas, TX, and rolled into the eastern part of Texas.....
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| spring green in eastern Texas |
.... everything began to look much greener.
Then bad weather caught up with us.
That night we stayed in a rest area near Shreveport, AL and got through
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| Radar screen shot with tornado fields marked on the way |
hours of tornado watch, torrential rainfall,
severe thunderstorms, some hail.
The whole time we sat in the dark because we cut out the power,
just in case.
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| thunder, lightning, torrential rain and high wind |
In the end all went well, but it was nerve-racking while it went on!
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| Lots of flooding in Alabama after the storms |
This morning we saw a lot of flooding during our drive through Louisiana, ....
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| flooded rivers and fields everywhere |
... into Mississippi ....
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| Bridge over the Mississippi River |
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| Flooded Mississippi |
The days of endless open roads were definitely over.
Dense traffic everywhere now.
The bad weather has moved on, for now,
and we will have a quiet night tonight near Tuscaloosa, AL.
I am looking forward to it!
Tomorrow we will be driving through Georgia and into South Caroline.
Stay tuned!
On the road again! Headed home - sweet home! :-)
ReplyDeleteglad you're home safe and sound.
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