What a storm...

 

This weekend it was wind.....we lucked up and got a lovely site we'd been trying to reserve for 2 years now.  It's big, secluded and easy to back in to.  We arrived Friday night and got mostly set up before dark.  Weatherman said the weekend was going to be HOT and he was right on the money.  We were lounging around Saturday afternoon, both of us deep in our novels.  Between the heat and the book I was getting pretty drowsy so around 3:30 I went in the pod to catch some cool air and 40 winks.  At 4:00 Carol came in to wake me up, said a storm was coming in FAST!  I jumped up, went out and OMG!!!  The wind was incredible and the sky coming in was so dark.  I drove a couple of stakes in our EZ-Up, attached the straps to the dome which was about to take flight and staked them down.  While we were trying to get everything safely stored we heard an awful sound...two HUGE pine trees went crashing down.  Luckily no one was under them!  But needless to say it scared the HELL out of us!  We got everything as secure as we could and went in the pod, sitting at the dinette just waiting.  I got my cell phone, truck keys and wallet just in case we needed to make a quick exit, but after a bit, the wind died down.  We got a bit of rain, but not too much.  The power went out about 4:30 so we lost the weather station on the TV and our radio did not have any batteries!  Top of our to-do list is get batteries for the radio.  A handful of campers decided to pull out and head home since camping with their kids with no electricity was unbearable.  A pop-up a few sites away had some major damage to their awning.  The power finally came back on around 10:30pm.  Other than that I think everybody else was OK.  The rest of the weekend was fine.  When we got home today we were barely able to get the truck and the pod into the driveway due to all the limbs and branches covering the driveway.  We have a few downed trees here at the house, but fortunatly none on the house. 

 

This is the pod on our lovely campsite:

 

It's kinda hard to tell the size of this, but it's the roots of the two pines that went down:

 

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Tim

But no damage done to pod or TV, and at least I didn't have to get up, put on my foulies, and go out to make sure the anchor wasn't dragging like I would have done in years past when we were cruising up in that area.

Holy smoke! You win.