The soldier also further advised him that the highways leading out of Birmingham south were pretty much impassable at the moment because of stalled or disabled cars and was pretty much a mess because of the mass exodus that was going on in the city and that it would be best for him to try an alternate route if he was going to try reaching Montgomery.
On his way home to his apartment he started thinking about somehow making his way over to Tuscaloosa and then heading south but he really didn’t have the gas for that. He had a business associate that he was on friendly terms with that lived in that town and he had been invited over to his house for dinner a few times but that didn’t mean his friend would have any precious gas to spare or for that matter be inclined to give it to him if he ma
