Today we heard traffic on the I-5 so by 7 am I was online checking road conditions. I found that roads were starting to open over the mountain passes and side roads were opening.
We went back to the rest stop and found the old guy who man’s the coffee booth and he remembered us from yesterday. We spoke to him for a little bit about driving over the passes and as were leaving he called us back and told us about a side road to I-5. The road had just opened and he knew the way to the on-ramps that were open north of the flooding.
After filling up with diesel we went back to the RV, hooked up and started off for the side roads. We traveled through the country side, little towns and flooded areas. We could see Mt. Rainier and St. Helens from one stretch. The streams and rivers were over their banks and in some cases, houses flooded. Unfortunately there was no place to stop for photos.
We got lost at one point and found an on-ramp that was still closed. We spoke with the cop who told us to wait for ½ hour that the DOT officials would be giving a press conference. He anticipated that I-5 would be reopened at that ramp. We pulled off to some side parking when the TV helicopters started buzzing and circling. I opened the truck door and waved to some of them. When we heard that the highway wouldn’t open for another two hours to big rigs and passenger vehicles in 4 hours we took off back to the side roads and within ½ hour we stumbled onto an open on-ramp. We were on our way.
After arriving in Seattle we went to an RV park that looked good on paper. Well we have actually seen worse, but this one isn’t great. It is a parking lot with hookups. The guy is sullen. The woman always points out the rules and there are lots of them of which I’ve started breaking; staying on the internet all evening and some of it includes work related materials. Of course we couldn’t get into the space that they insisted on with our big truck. And after the guy went thru making stupid faces they gave us a pull thru site.
We had one claim this afternoon with a guy who was bordering hysteria and after leaving his place we went to the south end of Seattle to see a KOA. Wow, it has grass and trees! And the internet actually is fast, as compared to here and I can actually do business related work there. We will move there tomorrow morning.
I’ll try to start posting some photos in my next blogs.
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