Saturday, December 11, 2004

Dakota Ridge

Wow! That was exciting!

We had a wind storm. The wind blew all night.

We weigh 25,000 pounds. We're parked on a cement slab. Our hydraulic jacks
are down. But it felt like we were sleeping on a boat.... A boat that was
underway. It bounced us all over the place.

Some of the expensive motorhomes have weather stations on them. When they
stop, they raise the weather stations and get all the current readings.
There are a couple of those motorhomes here in the park at Dakota Ridge.
They both agree. We had 80 mph winds overnight Thursday night.

Lots of wind damage around the next morning, tanks blown over, flags
missing, bird feeders gone, awnings blown off, but we rode it out just fine,
and the next morning, Judy found both our rugs and the Christmas wreath off
the front of the Bounder.

That was exciting.