I spent the entire night driving people around town with my all wheel drive. While I was out, I documented some of the crazy stuff I saw.
It was 4:30 p.m. The rain had just turned to snow. I pulled through downtown towards Hoosierville and saw dedicated ticket scalpers out in the mush slinging U of L game tickets. I panicked as I returned from Indiana via the Second St. Bridge. It appeared that someone had stolen my city!
I saw a moving truck turned sideways across Eastern Parkway around 8 p.m. I didn't get a photo of that, but I did see lots of abandoned cars - mostly going westward up the Eastern Parkway hill right before Poplar Level Rd. Abandoned cars seemed pretty common throughout the city. I stopped at them to make sure no one was inside them and hurt. This truck slid off I-65 South, down the embankment and ended up stuck in the ditch along Arthur Street.
I'm not sure who, but someone tried to take out one of the last few of an endangered species. Would it be cheesy to say, "Here's a quarter panel - call someone who cares?"
I have to say I was proud to see quite a few Louisville do-gooders out in trucks towing people out of ditches and such. It's just one more reason to love Louisville, even though several out of towners last night were stunned at the city's "preparation."
I bet this guy was grateful for that. His mini-van went right off the side of the road and the back end turned upward. He then tried to gun his engines and back out of the ditch. "Dude. When your bumper is kissing the ground, you can't back out of it." It was lucky for him there were two trucks behind him when it happened; they set to work towing him out.
If I venture out again tonight, I will try harder to get better photos. If you do venture out, just keep it below 20 miles per hour, pay attention to what you feel under you and stay off the freeways. The best idea, however, is probably to snuggle up somewhere nice and warm to read about the chaos on Louisville.com.
Header Photography: I don't know how this car managed to spin out into the area between the trees there. It was perplexing to look at.
Photos by Jessica Lynn
