We have come halfway across the United States in the middle of one of the worst winters on record and encountered no bad weather, except for the rainstorms leaving Los Angeles. While airports all over the East Coast are closed due to blizzards, nary a drip of rain has touched our windshield in a thousand miles.
So it’s with a combination of resignation and jangly nerves that we learn via the news on New Years Eve day that we’re driving into the heart of a tornado/blizzard/hail stormfront that stretches across eight states and has already wreaked intense havoc in the Midwest.
According to the Weather Channel experts, the severe weather is expected to move upward by nighttime, leaving the Louisiana/Mississippi area where we’re heading mostly in the clear. However, we don’t want to be driving late at night because a) it’s New Year’s Eve, b) weather experts are usually wrong, and c) I know from experience that driving through a pretty bad storm at midnight is just as difficult as driving through a severe one in the daytime.