My parents are en route from OKC to Knoxville. I called them last night and they were eating dinner in Russelville, AR. At the time I was looking at the weather web site and there was a tornado warning about 5 miles east of them. So by stopping for dinner, they avoided the storm that killed those folks in Scotland, AR. Later, I saw the warnings go up for Little Rock, and I knew they were near there, so I called and got them off of the road in North Little Rock. As they pulled into the hotel, the tornado sirens were sounding. Needless to say that last night was a pretty scary situation with Little Rock getting one tornado warning after another for hours. It turns out that the one that did all of the damage on the east side of town was crossing I-40 right about the time they would have been at that point if they hadn't pulled off the highway.
Then this morning I saw the flooding, and called them again. It took them almost 2 hours to get from Forrest City, AR (~25 mi W. of Memphis) to the Whitten Rd. exit (#14) in E. Memphis. They pulled into the MPD station there on Appling Farms Pkwy and asked the police about the situation. They are now booking a room for the night back at exit #12. Not a good travel weekend.
Not looking forward to this crap making it to Knoxville this afternoon...
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