On a typical summer Saturday afternoon as beach tourists head north towards home from Gulf Shores or Orange Beach, it’s not uncommon to see Interstate 65 traffic heading into Birmingham backed up as far south as Alabaster, Lee Sentell says. But during Memorial Day weekend, Sentell said he saw the traffic backing up several miles further south to Exit 234 at the Shelby County Airport near .
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Alabama restaurants remain restricted as crowds arrive to beaches for Spring Break
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
Renovated public beach in Gulf Shores. Baldwin County photos 2021. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com).Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com
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Since the coronavirus pandemic began and restrictions were imposed on businesses, Karina Ceballos has removed eight of the tables from inside her small seafood eatery in Gulf Shores.
And though restrictions on the number of people seated at one table have been lifted in Alabama, Ceballos will enter the crucial Spring Break season without the normal seating inside King Neptune’s Seafood Restaurant. She said she’s fine with the arrangement as well as restaurant’s approach toward ensuring employees are wearing face masks and are sanitizing tables.