Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Lost In New Orleans
Last night we ended up staying in the Hampton Inn a couple of miles outside the city limits. We all slept on the floor and I froze. Why the fuck do hotel rooms have to be so damn cold?!
We got lost in New Orleans last night. The city is so dark, kind of reminiscent of the 2003 blackout. Except at least we had some kind of order as far as traffic was concerned. It's like the wild west down here. No traffic signals, no traffic cops, no stop signs. It is a total free for all. There was a terrible accident between a National Guard Humvee and a civilian vehicle that left a soldier in critical condition two nights ago.
In any case, we got lost in a pitch black ghost town. The only people on the streets at night are military and police personnel. The guys we're staying with are Emergency Management personnel from North Carolina, so since we were riding in official North Carolina Emergency vehicles, we threw on the emergency lights to alert other traffic that we were coming.
At one point, we hopped on I-10 going the wrong way and almost drove into a lake of water. We busted a u-turn and drove for about 2 miles going the wrong way on the interstate while swerving around disabled vehicles, debris, and we even found a dead body lying on top of a broken down car. We finally made it to the hotel around 11 PM and got some sleep.
Tonight we're staying here at the hotel again, and Captain "Q" from the Puerto Rican National Guard tagged along with us to do his laundry here at the hotel. The good Captain is going to let me take some photos with his 9mm Berretta, and Dennis is going to let me hold his shotgun for fun as well.
I met some Missouri National Guardsmen outside the hotel today who I will be exchanging some photos with via e-mail... so I'll make sure that I post those up for y'all to see.
Well I'm gonna head to bed now, I'll update again tomorrow.
Doc Out.
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We got lost in New Orleans last night. The city is so dark, kind of reminiscent of the 2003 blackout. Except at least we had some kind of order as far as traffic was concerned. It's like the wild west down here. No traffic signals, no traffic cops, no stop signs. It is a total free for all. There was a terrible accident between a National Guard Humvee and a civilian vehicle that left a soldier in critical condition two nights ago.
In any case, we got lost in a pitch black ghost town. The only people on the streets at night are military and police personnel. The guys we're staying with are Emergency Management personnel from North Carolina, so since we were riding in official North Carolina Emergency vehicles, we threw on the emergency lights to alert other traffic that we were coming.
At one point, we hopped on I-10 going the wrong way and almost drove into a lake of water. We busted a u-turn and drove for about 2 miles going the wrong way on the interstate while swerving around disabled vehicles, debris, and we even found a dead body lying on top of a broken down car. We finally made it to the hotel around 11 PM and got some sleep.
Tonight we're staying here at the hotel again, and Captain "Q" from the Puerto Rican National Guard tagged along with us to do his laundry here at the hotel. The good Captain is going to let me take some photos with his 9mm Berretta, and Dennis is going to let me hold his shotgun for fun as well.
I met some Missouri National Guardsmen outside the hotel today who I will be exchanging some photos with via e-mail... so I'll make sure that I post those up for y'all to see.
Well I'm gonna head to bed now, I'll update again tomorrow.
Doc Out.
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