Made it for the 2nd half of Dana's sermon. We're all safe. Even Smokey (the dog) seems no worse for wear.
I may have a few more items to add from this "Adventure in Moving" (I wonder why U-Haul no longer uses that tag line?) but for me the highlights were:
1) The town of Hearne, TX almost completely underwater, and driving through it.
2) Taking a slight detour from a defunct gas station to a working one just across the parking lot. Flooded lot, of course. Big dip in the middle. Trailer made it over, but at the nadir of the dip, I sort of tore out the handy little thing that you crank down to hold the trailer level when it is off the hitch. Oops. Never liked that thing anyway.
3) Hearing Dana's story about almost sliding off the exit ramp. No wait, she did NOT almost slide off, she only THOUGHT she was sliding off! Really!!! The very idea!
4) I really enjoyed driving a 24' U-Haul with a 12' utility trailer through Kansas City on the various flavors of I-35 that they have sort of going through that city. Wow!
5) Having Dana call me twice because I was driving onto the shoulder. I was changing tapes. Neuromancer book on tape read by teh author. (Hint: Get a professional to read your books on tape!!!) [dkw note -- if you'd seen him at the last rest stop you'd know why I was worried.] [bob_scopatz note -- I really should use my initials] (okay, it was sort of night of the living dead...)
6)MY FAVORITE PART -- falling off the truck. And that WASN'T the reason for the trip to the emergency room. I just ended up sort of slow-motion crumpling to the lip of the deck, then the metal bumper, then the ground. The concrete broke my fall. Another hint -- don't load U-Haul trucks during the actual monsoon.
And later, dkw will tell you all how much fun we had at the emergency room, and why we went there, why we're glad we did.
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Glad you're there safe. Can't wait to hear the emergency room story.
I can really sympathize with #4 -- I have a hard enough time driving a regular car through that Kansas City highway mess -- I can't imagine doing it with your load.
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I'll rest easier knowing that you all made it to your destination relatively unscathed (I hope). Downtown KC I-35 can be a pain and I'm glad you managed to run that gauntlet. Rest well and have a fabulous Thanksgiving.
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*bump* Ok, I think it's time for the ER story.
What do you mean, you're in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner? Don't you know some of us are working today and need to hear humorous stories? Think of the children!
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Thanksgiving dinner? What makes you think they're letting us eat dinner? We're still slaving away unloading and unpacking Bob's stuff... Boy, If I'da known they were just inviting us down to be pack mules.....
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