I Received a call Friday morning from the home office, beckoning me too Ludington,
Michigan. Of course, they wanted me there now. There were no flights
out of Baton Rouge so I booked a 5:20 pm out of NOLA and enlisted the
aid and truck of my brother-in-law for the trip to the airport.
It never entered my mind to check road conditions
and 10 miles south, we found the interstate shut down due to flooding
from Sorrento to LaPlace. I called DOTD asking about closures and the
nice lady told me that I-10 and even I-55 was closed so we hooked back
to Baton Rouge then took I-12 toward Covington & the Causeway. I
found out too late that 55 from Hammond to LaPlace was not closed.
After
rerouting back on I-12, we ran into congestion such as you could not
imagine on an interstate. Realizing I would not make my flight, I
called in and changed it to a 6 a.m. Saturday morning out of New
Orleans.
Four hours later, we arrived at the airport
To shorten this tale, lights were still out near the
airport rendering all the hotels nearby out of business, so I elected to camp out in the world's most uncomfortable seating
currently available in US airports to wait for the sun to rise and an
airport coffee shop to open. The stores and shops close early at MSY so I managed to grab an overpriced shrimp poboy before everything shut down.
It seemed like every 10 minutes some maintenance guy would roll a cart
through making lots of noise or one of the cops would sail through on a 3
wheeled scooter and key his little Micky-Mouse siren, so there wasn't
much sleeping going on.
I may be getting too old for this nonsense.
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