Today we decided to head home a day early and try to get south of what was left of Hurricane Irma. We were very lucky to have no damage at home an no loss of power. We called the campground in Alabama we had planned on staying at and they couldn’t assure us that they’d have any spots available because they weren’t sure all of their hurricane evacuees would depart today. We decided to leave at 10:40 AM EDT and see how far traffic allowed us to go.
We took US-49 from Vicksburg, MS to Hattiesburg, MS and then US-98 to Mobile, AL. US-49 was fairly good road most of the way and US-98 was real nice until just a few miles prior to the Alabama state line. It switched from 4 lane to 2 lane in Alabama and it seemed to take forever to get to I-65 and I-10 in Mobile, AL. There was quite a bit of congestion where I-10 narrows to 2 lanes for the tunnel under the Mobile river.
We started to receive Hurricane Irma’s winds and rain when we got on I-10. I truly white knuckled it across Pensacola Bay. The wind gusts were heavy and blew the Winnebago all over the lane (fortunately there was not a lot of traffic around me on the bridge). Beth called quite a few campgrounds throughout the afternoon and they were all full of evacuees. We finally got a call back from Sunset King Lake RV Resort with an opening and we jumped on it. By then we were tired of fighting Hurricane Irma and the traffic. We probably passed a couple hundred power trucks from Arkansas, Missouri, and Alabama in route to help with the recovery.
We haven’t seen much of this campground because it was raining and windy when we arrived at 6 PM EDT, but it seems very nice. There is a large percentage of permanent RV’s, but all are kept up very nicely.
We are in Site J-1 and have 50 Amps and full hookups. We are able to access their Wi-Fi, but the speeds are very slow. Verizon service is 3 bars but the LTE is very slow (0.57/2.47)
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