Monthly Archives: March 2009
Gather the animals, two by two…
Gather the animals, two by two… but be more picky this time.
Maybe not two of everything!
The rainstorms just won’t let up. Some places around here have had almost 8 inches. We’ve probably had 4 or 5 inches here at the park.
Luckily, we’re parked on an asphalt pad here. The last time we had rain like this while we were parked was last October in Sioux Falls, SD. Except then, we were parked on a grass site at the local fairgrounds (A lot of fairgrounds have a small number of RV sites for rent).
When we went to leave after 6 days, we couldn’t.
We were stuck and had to be towed out. The grass that was fine when we pulled in had turned to a muddy muck by the time we were ready to leave. It was pouring down rain when the tow driver showed up and the poor guy had to crawl under the front of the coach in the mud to hook up the tow cables. Once he had us hooked up, it only took about 10 minutes to slowly winch us out.
We have Good Sams Emergency Road Service so the tow didn’t cost us anything, but I gave him a big tip.
Rain, wind, and storms…
We’re in our 2nd day of rain, wind, and storms so there’s not much going on. There was a tornado about 10 miles up the road in Lillian, but we were OK here.
We had the breakfast buffet again at Hazel’s down the road. Always a good meal.
A little before 2pm, a park guy came by saying they thought we were leaving yesterday and we hadn’t paid for anymore.
After Jan woke me up from my nap (I’m retired, remember) I headed down to the campground office to figure out what happened. I had gone down on Monday (the day before we supposed to leave) and extended for another week. So what happened?
Well, what happened was that I had extended and paid for a week, but in the computer they only had me down for extending a DAY. Oh, well.
Surf Flags
I did find some more info on the surf flags.
Right now, we have a red flag and a purple flag. The purple flag normally means jellyfish or Portuguese man-of-war.
Gulf Shores shuts down swimming on their public beach at one red flag, but the state beaches do it at two red flags.
Although the surf was rougher than the other day, we would have still been swimming/surfing in it.
Surf's Up!
Hopefully better weather tomorrow, but not likely.
We’ll see.
