Operation LA or Bust: Part 1....Road Blocks
It didn't take long before my trip to LA got interesting. I had planned to visit my parents up in Indiana Friday night before the big take off. What was suppose to be a two hour trip, turned into a four hour ordeal. I had forgotten that Indiana got slammed with storms and tornados the night before. Roads were blocked because of fallen trees and heavy water. Houses were torned apart by winds and ugly tornados. The pictures I took from my car do no justice to what I saw.
After 8 hours of working, 2 hours of packing my apt, 4 hours of driving and another 3 hours of sorting stuff at my parents, I've decided to delay my trip one day and will actually leave Sunday. It's fine because I just wanted to get to LA before Friday, which I still will. This gives me a little more time with my family...
This is a shot from my window as I tread water on the highway. I made it through, but a lot of people didn't....there came a point along the trip to my parents where I was complete road blocked and had to turn around and find other means of getting home....
In the picture below it looks like just a shot of water from a lake, but actually that was a corn field at one point...
It's kind of hard to see from this picture, but it tells the whole story...it tells just how desperate people are to get from point A to point B. If you notice to the right of the car on the ground is a circle of water....the driver was fishing water out of the base of his car after we had just crossed over a flooded highway...
The next picture was the first moment I realized that this could get really bad for me. This truck was just floating in the water....
The sun kind of made it hard the whole trip to get good pictures. But you can see from this picture that I'm approaching a flooded highway...this was the point where I couldn't cross....
The saddest part of the whole trip was to see houses that had felt the pains of the storm. It's hard to see just how much damage a tornado had done this the roof of this house, but I wasn't about to get out and take a picture of the backside. I didn't want to be rude to the family that lives there. You can also see to the right, where a tree had been sliced in half...
After 8 hours of working, 2 hours of packing my apt, 4 hours of driving and another 3 hours of sorting stuff at my parents, I've decided to delay my trip one day and will actually leave Sunday. It's fine because I just wanted to get to LA before Friday, which I still will. This gives me a little more time with my family...
This is a shot from my window as I tread water on the highway. I made it through, but a lot of people didn't....there came a point along the trip to my parents where I was complete road blocked and had to turn around and find other means of getting home....
In the picture below it looks like just a shot of water from a lake, but actually that was a corn field at one point...
It's kind of hard to see from this picture, but it tells the whole story...it tells just how desperate people are to get from point A to point B. If you notice to the right of the car on the ground is a circle of water....the driver was fishing water out of the base of his car after we had just crossed over a flooded highway...
The next picture was the first moment I realized that this could get really bad for me. This truck was just floating in the water....
The sun kind of made it hard the whole trip to get good pictures. But you can see from this picture that I'm approaching a flooded highway...this was the point where I couldn't cross....
The saddest part of the whole trip was to see houses that had felt the pains of the storm. It's hard to see just how much damage a tornado had done this the roof of this house, but I wasn't about to get out and take a picture of the backside. I didn't want to be rude to the family that lives there. You can also see to the right, where a tree had been sliced in half...