Warning - Broken control arm bolt!

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Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I found leaving (with a hurricane of significant strength approaching) best. I closed on my house a few weeks before Ike hit in 2008. I left Texas on Thursday just to be safe. I later looked at a pic that someone posted from a point on U.S. 59 south of Lufkin on Friday that showed bumper to bumper traffic out there in the boonies re people trying to flee the hurricane ---- 24 hours earlier I had experienced no traffic at all at the spot where that pic was taken. I awakened in my hotel room in suburban Memphis, TN the morning after Ike and the wind (hundreds of miles away from the hurricane) had lifted up all of the outdoor furniture and carried it into the pool.

Yes I told bro "Put Mom on a plane to NJ" if any hurricanes threaten. He didnt do that but at least got Mom in a car a few days before everyone else scrammed. They went to a friends house in Dallas for the duration.

Its a good thing because had they left when everyone else did they would have gotten on the freeway and been stuck in traffic for hours if not days. Even idleing the engine the car woould have run out of gas and there is no way to get gas stuck in miles of traffic. No gas no AC = no Mom.

That was twice and it happened a few years ago. Now she is in a nurseing home and beyond the capability of my brother to do anything for her. If there another hurricane she will have to be evaced by the staff.

If that happens....