The rest of the camping experience....

We awoke on Saturday to strong wind that was coming from the Lake....  Eisenhower State Park is on the North shore of Melvern Lake....  So the wind was out of the South coming directly across to our camp on the shore...

We had a pretty good day on Saturday, but mostly in the lea of our campers and inside our motorhome.... But about 6  PM all heck broke loose....

The TV screen turned Red and storms directly to our South were producing golf ball hail....   In addition the weather radio went off with its alarm....

So we ran around cleaning up and securing our respective camps as dark skies covered our camps....  It began to rain and the wind blew, but not very hard....  So we watched the computer screens to learn that the really bad cell was going off to our North toward Topeka....  It missed us...

The radar also showed a second storm coming from Wichita, so we scrubbed our plans to grill out and diverted to Buzzard's Pizza...  Buzzards is found in several of the small country towns in that region, and we find it quite good....

Of course it causes me great distress but that is much later at night....  And the second storm did come after midnight.  We had rain and wind but I was sleeping...  It wasn't bothering me too much...

It was the gusty wind that replaced the storm that awakened me at 4 AM....  It was flapping the slide toppers..  And I had a tree branch that was scraping on the ladder on the back of the coach....  It sounded like the proverbial fingernails on the blackboard.... Scree, screec, screech...   screeeeeeeeach...... Then silence for a while before it all started again...  We only had two channels on the TV, but I turned it on and up louder than the noise on the ladder...  But even then I didn't go back to sleep...

Biscuit was restless as well and jumped from the floor to the bed and back again..  And the pizza was now driving me nuts..  Alka Seltzer to the rescue. Eventually it was 8 AM..

When Biscuit went out for potty, the wind blew the door hard on its hinge..  The clouds were roaring past with the wind...  First overcast then sunny....  No breakfast outside today either...  So I started in packing up to leave...

The wind was nasty as I drove back to KC...  Pulling the Jeep, is heavier than the Honda CRV, and I was more all over the road..  So I took the back roads to Ottawa...  Then for a few miles on the Interstate but back off of it again at Gardner...

The rest of the afternoon was spent washing the RV and carrying things into the house....  I'm not sure why I did all that because it is supposed to rain most of this upcoming week....  But maybe it will be new dirt.......!  Ya, right...

Retired Rod