Need gas availability help next week on I-75

Hi you all,

This is off the photography subject but we're trying to make our drive down from northern Michigan to the west coast of Florida. We've been here all summer. Our dilemma now is that we don't know what the gas situation is in the states along I-75 going south so don't know when to start the trip. (Michigan,Ohio, Kentucky,Tennessee, Georgia etc)

Any of you in those states or along or near I-75 please jot me a note on my email or on this thread... We don't want to get out there with three dogs and health problems and find no gas available.

Any insights you can give me would be helpful.

Many thanks and much appreciated,
Gaye

 

Hi Marshall,

Thanks for the tips about Knoxville. We'll be going through KNoxville next Wednesday and will stop overnight in south Knoxville on I-75. We'll try to roll through that area in late afternoon so hope to miss some of the roadblocks you warned about. Thanks very much for that information.

Also, at this point we're more concerned about whether we can actually get gas than the price because it's urgent that we get home...We can't take a chance,because of medical problems, on getting stuck somewhere with no gas. So by next week we hope the gas supply will be okay and that people will be over their hysteria about gas.

We cry for the people affected in the southern gulf states by the hurricane. It is beyond imagination what they are going through. Certainly our little gas problem is insignificant in comparison.

I hope to hear from anyone else along I-75 and also, Marshall, please keep me informed at the end of the weekend. That would also be helpful because we'll depart on Tuesday morning.

Thanks very much and my best to you,

Gaye

 

Hi Dave,
I hear what you're saying 'loud and clear'......... thanks for your input about gas prices over there across the Atlantic. That helps us put it all into perspective.

Also, I ventured through much of your gallery of pictures and the information about you and your wife. I have a slow line up here but when I get home to Florida I'll continue to view it with my fast cable line. The orange eyes of that owl are haunting. I enjoyed seeing your work and look forward to more,

Thanks and my best to you,
Gaye

 

Hi Jarrell,
Thanks for the help about your area in Macon. We will go right by you next week. If things change drastically by Monday please jot a note on this thread. Our big concern is not being able to get gas on the way down.

So far we're hearing it's available but higher prices every day. If we hear it's not available and very hard to get then we'll have to postpone our trip to home.

Thanks and I'll wave to Hannah and you on the way around Macon :biggrin:

 

Hi Gale,

You're across from me on the other coast in Florida so what is going on there is surely going on in my home city. Thanks for your help and please keep me posted.

We hope to start home but if gas too hard to get we'll have to postpone the trip...

The doggies sure won't like that because the three of them are eager to get home. They're tired of all the squirrels, chipmunks and raccoons... they're ready to get home to cockroaches, alligators and lovely wading birds.

 

Hi Eugene and Ken,

You have both given me/us much to think about. Good idea about the gas can. Think we'll take an empty one and fill it when we find the situation changing from available to unavailable.

Also the new storm forming in the Atlantic will be an issue... They don't know anything about where it might go as of now but in a few days they will make some predictions.. That also would make gas scarce in Florida if people had to evacuate.

Maybe it's time to move out of Florida but after 34 years there it doesn't make much sense to 'cut and run'------- and the bird photography in the winter is sensational down there and I'd hate to miss that...Lots to think about :biggrin:

Thanks for all your help and good insights,

Gaye