I guess we were "Destin"ed for vacation.

We arrived at our condo around 6:30 p.m. yesterday. We hit the road about 11:00 after watching the weather channel for a few hours. We had decided to get to Waynesboro, MS; eat some lunch and plan our decent south to Florida. We could either keep going on Hwy 45 to Mobile, AL or take a different route further east and then down to the coast.
After a quick bite at the local Wendy's, I made the executive decision to stay on Hwy 45; after all it was hardly even raining; how bad could it be? About 10 miles down the road we found out. The radio was tuned to MS public radio and about every 5 minutes a new tornado warning popped up. At first they were south and west of us according to the atlas. But then they seemed to be in the county we were heading to or the one we were in!! We kept on truckin' however and after about 2 hours of white knuckle driving we made it to a gas station for some cover on the outskirts of Mobile. We knew the tunnel and the causeway were closed so we took a "detour" around Mobile that brought us into Pensacola. It was smooth sailing the rest of the way and nary a raindrop since. Destin is beautiful and our condo/resort is quite nice.
Now that I have experience driving in a hurricane we'll be ready when we leave here; just in case Hanna decides to show up.
We will post some pics later, but for now we are off to the beach. Y'all have fun in tropical storm Gustav!!