This is going a be a long thread, its basically my whole night and into the next day during the evacuation. You've all probably heard the stories of people and groups going up to help, and they did. My 3 friends and I were the first group to head up there. Not saying that for bragging rights, just stating the facts.

We hit Highway 63 around 8 or 9 p.m. (it was already getting dark). The highway was basically a ghost town until about mile marker 95 — that’s when we started seeing the southbound traffic.