and ward off some freezing temperatures. how did you do it? did you have any food? andrea, it was pretty intense. the sum total of what i ate in that car for 27 hours was a 16 ounce dr. pepper and an orange that a family from connecticut gave me. they were stuck right in front of me. they were coming back from vacation in florida and they were passing out oranges and we were all talking and they gave me an orange. a dr. pepper and an orange got me through 27 hours and i got here just in time for the 4:30 voting rights meeting which i really wanted to be there on and it was challenging and a lot of folks had a lot of problems because i had a full tank of gas and a warm coat. not everybody had that. when you re stuck, you know, on the road in the middle of the night in low teen temperature for 26 hours, a lot of people were running out of gas and they didn t have a heater and couldn t get anywhere and then their car was blocking every other car. it was pretty scary for a lot of folks.