The Saga Continues

The Saga Continues....

Well yesterday we figured how could it get worse? First we drove up 101 from Arcata heading for home. Now this huge wind comes up with barrels of rain pouring down. We are on the narrow part of the road when suddenly a limb snaps off a tree  and hits the car.. Jacky swerved and so we took only the light branches of it. Further on we came to the Prairie Creek cut off which was closed and 1 mile further 101 was closed indefinitely. Turn around and drive back to Arcata but we are blocked in because that heavy wind was a micro-burst or something like it and at least 200 trees now lie over 101 all the way back to Eureka. Crews cut and you move a few yards...

We end up hours later in Arcata at the Howard Johnson’s inn that we started from. Asking for a room for the night. The storm has knocked out all electricity in the NW area and won’t be back on for 48 hours. The rooms come with no discounts now they are top dollar. They refuse to honor their coupons. They have you. Since there is no power.. there are no restaurants or stores no gas stations. There are a few places with limited services because they have generators. There are no ATM’s our money supply is limited and dwindling.

On the bright side Donna Davi and daughter Lisa  are now with us on Sunday. They got caught trying to get home too and we are now the LVH Caravan. We both left Arcata and joined up in Redding and are sharing a two bedroom suite for the night as it is snowing on the US 5. We may try again tomorrow morning to get over to Ashland. The 299 was much faster today. The crews are keeping it pretty clear but they have their hands full. It took us 3 hours to get back to Redding.

Since there was no electricity I couldn’t write yesterday.