Our Last Ride and More Winds

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A couple fishermen are out trying their luck.

My last blog told you what the forecast was for this area. It was predicted to be windy with winds blowing at 30 mph Sunday evening. It was windy alright and by the time I went to bed which was around midnight most of the winds had died down – just like the weatherman had predicted. The weatherman was right-on this time ………….. or, was he?

We thought this was just a beautiful place to be.

About 2:00 AM another wave of winds hit us. We didn’t know these were coming. They were coming from the SSE which was a good thing since we were angled just right not to be hit with them broadside. We’ve been in strong winds but these rank close to the very top. Gusts ripped between 60 – 70 mph. Our antenna was brought down as well as our large side brought in. We have slide toppers and we certainly didn’t want that wind to rip them off. The winds blew for several hours before it finally subsided and we could sleep.

Water level is up.  Care to have a picnic in the water?

In the morning we talked to several other folks in the park. Some weren’t quite as lucky as we were as they were hit broadsided with the winds and rocked much of the night. The good thing though is that most of us had already put away what could have been flying objects due to the earlier lighter winds. These winds weren’t just unique to this area. They were the same winds that hit southern California and shook my cousin in Las Vegas on its way here to us. Many folks pulled out of the park early in the morning on their way north. I hope they weren’t going too far or they would have been caught up in them again. I also hope we never see winds like that again.

One thing we did discover was that after the strong winds the sand was smooth again.  All the deep ruts caused by the ATVs and dirt bikes had been blown away.  That was a good thing.

We are traveling on Wednesday.  Weather looks nice, winds are farther north and the sun just may be shining.  We have an appointment for some service work on the motorhome at Camping World.  Our schedule was determined by their schedule and not ours.  They had only one appointment available this week.  We took it!!

On our last ride at the park.

Now I know a lot of people gripe about work done at Camping World. We all gripe about some of the work we have done on our RVs and have more than our share of horror stories. We have used Camping World for many different service items and other than a normal little glitch or two still rate it the best. This is our thought. If you have an RV technician do service work in Portland and something goes bad, you pay for the repair again in Phoenix. If you have Camping World do service work in Portland and something goes wrong, they redo it for free in Phoenix or San Antonio! That’s insurance.

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I think Murphy is busy with Murphy’s Law.  Before we made an appointment at Camping World and made a reservation at another RV park, I checked the wind prediction.  Wednesday was going to be a great day for a beautiful drive.  We paid for one more night, gave the ATVs a bath, loaded them on the trailer and hooked the trailer to the motor home.  This is where Murphy got busy.  I checked the wind prediction …. again.  There was a brand new forecast and the forecast was predicting high winds for about 200 miles north.  Guess what?  Instead of the planned departure time of around 10:00 AM, we’ll be pulling out of here around 7:00 AM.  I hope I didn’t say that too loud because we have a way around the current forecast as long as it’s not changed again. We just leave before the winds arrive.  That’s the plan but we’re not necessarily sticking to it.  I'll be checking the forecast at least one more time before we pull out.

ATVs were unloaded, Terry gave them a bath and we reloaded behind the motorhome.  We’re ready to go.

‘Tis life on the road.