We survived the flood.....

No one told me that camping this weekend would mean almost getting hit by lightning or worrying about my trailer floating away in the deluge. What a weekend....

We arrived Thursday afternoon and the day was pretty uneventful actually - the silence before the storm evidentally. On Friday we had a great time going on walks and junior spent the day collecting rocks. I don't understand that about my boy...he hates dirt...but doesn't mind picking up handfuls of gravel and pouring them over his own head??? A day in his brain....that's where I want to go on my next vacation...cause it sure seems like a great place to visit! We all went out for dinner at the local Bob Gibson's BBQ on friday night. Imagine if you will a group of 30 people - 26 retirees, 2 30-somethings, and the tiny terrors. You could almost see the fear in the waitresses face as we were seated. Surprisingly enough other than a pre-dinner potty accident we were event free for the entire meal. Though after returning to the campground and saying goodnight to everyone we realized our night was just beginning.

We got the terrors bathed and clothed for bed. We put on a dvd of "The Music Man" and they drifted off to sleep. The rain started around 11pm. Nothing too bad, just a few large drops hitting the roof. I drifted off around 11:30 or 12 only to be awoken at 1:30am by the sound of thunder booming and lightning racing across the sky. For the next hour and a half I was glued to the windows trying to see if anything was getting hit nearby. There was one VERY loud bang-snap that caused the terror #2 to wake up and keep me company for a while. We found out the next morning that a trailer over on the next loop (about 300 yards away) got hit pretty bad and that was the loud bang we heard. It blew out his hot water heater and refridgerator. He had to have his unit hauled to the shop on Saturday morning. We only had some minor awning damage due to the high winds, but other than that we were lucky. You could tell that the water was streaming past our trailer from the debris line left on my carpet. Nothing like a saturday morning clean up to get the juices flowing!!

The rest of the weekend was pretty tame compared to that storm, though we were all glued to the weather radio to make sure the other storms headed our way weren't going to be as bad. We got lucky. They were saying on the weather radio that we could expect 2-4 inches of rain in 2 hours ... we only got half that on Saturday night. When we pulled out on Sunday it was just starting to rain, so we missed that storm also.

I'm beginning to think that I should take a job in weather forecasting. When we were checking the weather on the local stations before we left they were saying sun all weekend. That has to be the only job where you can be wrong most of the time and NOT get fired. Sounds like the job to have ... just say whatever you want and then blame it on the jet stream ... or a fast developing front... people will still watch you ...