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We had to drive down to Gulf Shores for a wedding this past Friday. We checked into hotel on Thursday night, and watched Dennis after dinner. Friday morning, they started voluntary evacuations of the area. After wedding, my mom, who had just gotten back from Tallahassee, said not to drive over to Fort Walton Beach and was worried that we might not be able to get out Saturday morning b/c of traffic. 15 minutes later, after we leave the Gulf Shores area, she calls back---oh, get gas if you can. There isn't any in our area. Well, of course, I tried to get gas and EVERY gas station for 20 miles was out of gas. Finally found some in Pensacola Beach and filled up. Continued over to FWB, and luckily, weather was okay. When we left this morning ( Saturday) we decided not to take I-65 b/c they had turned the South bound lanes north for the now mandatory evacuation of all areas south of I-10 in Alabama. Took a smaller hwy and had not problems...traffic on I-65 from Mobile to Montgomery was awful from what I heard from other folks. 150 miles of bumper to bumper.

Parents are not thrilled about Dennis...Mom JUST had the roof fixed three weeks ago from Ivan!