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So there's this ridiculous free Kenny Chesney concert today...

Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:50 am
Posted by Giantkiller
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:50 am
...at FloraBama and it's coincidentally the same day my family's annual beach vacation in Orange Beach starts. I heard there's been some snafu where they gave thousands of free tickets away to this thing, and now there's a hundred million rednecks descending upon it in hordes. I thought about taking the ferry in Dauphin Island, but it looks like there's only one boat running every hour and a half that holds 18 cars.

Do I just bite the bullet and go sit in the massive traffic jam through the tunnel?

What would the OT do?
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
Member since Aug 2004
17979 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:54 am to
Are there waves?
Posted by Sir Drinksalot
Member since Aug 2005
16740 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:54 am to
Toll bridge? Go thru Pensacola to OB the back way?
Posted by TechDawg2007
Bawville
Member since Nov 2007
32249 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:54 am to
Not go to the Kenny Chesney concert
Posted by skidry
Member since Jul 2009
3249 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:55 am to
Can you not just wait until the concert starts and then drive in? They should all be off
The road by then
Posted by Aubie Spr96
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Member since Dec 2009
41045 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:55 am to
Probably best to stay inside. Hate to see you get raped, tea bagged, or worse.
Posted by wartiger2004
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 8:59 am to
Go through the Bankhead tunnel
Posted by Giantkiller
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:01 am to
I've bypassed the tunnel by taking that new northern bridge that hooks up with 90. Might try that.

I'm sure all the slackjaws know all the back ways around there. Maybe they'll all be going those ways?
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
58088 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:07 am to
I don't really think the tunnel will be bad this time of the year. Maybe on a Friday evening, but not today.
Posted by Sir Drinksalot
Member since Aug 2005
16740 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:08 am to
Condos are rented sat to sat. The mobile tunnel will be hell starting around 11/12ish. So will 59.
Posted by TigerStripes06
SWLA
Member since Sep 2006
30032 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:08 am to
Traffic is that bad this late? That's hard to believe. It's even harder to believe a concert would draw so many people that it would back up the interstate 60 miles away.
Posted by tiger114
Fairhope, AL
Member since Sep 2009
5223 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:10 am to
I-10 W to I-65 N to I-165 to the Africatown Bridge to hwy 90 to Spanish Fort, then get back on I-10 to the Foley Beach Express.
Posted by LateArrivalforLSU
Ascension Parish
Member since Sep 2012
3512 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:11 am to
quote:

...at FloraBama and it's coincidentally the same day my family's annual beach vacation in Orange Beach starts. I heard there's been some snafu where they gave thousands of free tickets away to this thing, and now there's a hundred million rednecks descending upon it in hordes. I thought about taking the ferry in Dauphin Island, but it looks like there's only one boat running every hour and a half that holds 18 cars.

Do I just bite the bullet and go sit in the massive traffic jam through the tunnel?

What would the OT do?

Not start this thread.
Posted by Bullfrog
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Member since Jul 2010
56121 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:11 am to
Don't take 59.

Go one more exit to the new Baldwin express that ties directly into the Foley Beach Express.


Bypass the whole mall route
Posted by Coon
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Member since Feb 2005
18492 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:13 am to
Is this a subtle Redneck Riviera brag thread?
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:14 am to
quote:

Condos are rented sat to sat. The mobile tunnel will be hell starting around 11/12ish. So will 59.



This, I'd just waste a night and drive up Sunday, or get a hotel on Friday night to avoid travelling on Saturday.
Posted by Coon
La 56 Southbound
Member since Feb 2005
18492 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:17 am to
quote:

quote: Condos are rented sat to sat. The mobile tunnel will be hell starting around 11/12ish. So will 59.


Uh, no. You can rent condos any day to any day. Some have minimums but none are set for certain intervals. I got here Wednesday and am leaving tomorrow.
Posted by Sir Drinksalot
Member since Aug 2005
16740 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:20 am to
I said "most"
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:22 am to
quote:

Uh, no. You can rent condos any day to any day. Some have minimums but none are set for certain intervals. I got here Wednesday and am leaving tomorrow.



In peak season, the majority are week long rentals. Just because you found one that isn't doesn't mean it isn't a major cause of traffic.
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
80863 posts
Posted on 8/16/14 at 9:23 am to
I'm here. Slept in my truck last night. The line ti get in is retarded

Might just watch from the condo
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