Mother Nature conspiring to keep travel more arduous than usual

If travelers set their eyes on the Gulf Coast, think again. Hurricane Sally is dumping more than 20 inches of rain in parts of Alabama and Florida. My brother-in-law lives in Gulfport, Mississippi. He spent a couple of days preparing for Hurricane Sally to hit the beach head-on. As it was, they received “about a tenth of an inch” of rain. But his cousin in nearby Mobile, Alabama lost his boat as the hurricane swept ashore. In fact, the entire pier was gone. A section of the Interstate 10 bridge in Pensacola collapsed.