Saturday up and down the Mid-Atlantic region was a nightmare of power outages and stifling heat. Over one million residences in the DC/Baltimore region were without power and countless more in other states from Friday evenings derecho storm, which basically a no notice hurricane. Once the reality of an extended outage dawned on people they began flocking to hotels. By Saturday night you couldn’t find a vacant room for 150 miles in any direction from Washington, DC. Into this abyss I journeyed – pre-paid reservation in hand to the Motel 6 in Ashland, Virginia. Ashland exists, apparently, solely to bunk … Continue reading Tom Bodett Didn’t Leave The Lights On For Me At The Motel 6