Left a half hour before sunrise in the rain. It cleared up by the time I got to Birmingham. Lots of bumper to bumper traffic going around Birmingham. Once that cleared up made it to just past Tuscaloosa. That is where things got real bad. A tractor trailer cattle hauler, full of cattle, rolled over at mm 58. The driver was killed. They had the Interstate closed in both directions because of the crash and there were cattle loose all around the scene. A big mess. They were routing south bound traffic off at exit 62. Fortunately I was there early enough to get stopped three miles from exit 62. It took three hours to go those three miles!!!! Once I got off at the exit it didn't take long to follow the detour back onto the interstate at exit 52. That is where they were routing the north bound traffic off. By that time the back up was past Tuscaloosa, over 20 miles. Needless to say, I didn't get as far as I wanted today. Stopped for the night at the TA truck stop in Slidell, Louisiana. Thunderstorms here. I just checked the road conditions back where the crash was. The south bound side of the interstate is still closed. I went through there about noon. Here is a screen shot of it now, 5:03 pm CST.
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