[SmartBlondeGPhB]

I thought some of you might find this interesting. It's an excerpt of an email we got from my aunt who lives in Metairie. It seems not everyone has the "charitable" feeling.........


We evacuated on Sunday morning. They instituted contra flow which means the traffic went both ways out of the city north towards Mississippi. We stopped for gas in Amite, LA and we were able to get a hotel room there. However, we weren’t supposed to have a pet and I had my Dachshund, Maggie, with us. We sneaked her into the room but they found out and asked us to leave. We were packing our stuff when the Amite police knocked on the door to escort us out. The police were very apologetic and said they didn’t understand why the guy running the hotel was being such an ass. He was knocking on all the doors up and down the halls to see how many people were in each room. He was definitely looking for his pound of flesh. We left Amite and headed north and of course all the rooms thru Mississippi were filled everywhere we stopped. I had been to Starkville, MS a few times on college recruiting trips at Mississippi State so headed toward Starkville since it was off the beaten path and stayed there for a couple of nights. Then it was off to Denver.