Friday, 12/19/08 This is a copy of the Alert Notice that was delivered by one of the RV Park staff members a few hours ago (Friday afternoon). A notice personally delivered by hand to everyone in the park has a way of getting one’s attention! At the moment, I feel a sense of uneasiness at what the notice implies.
Now, what to do! What to do! How do you protect a RV from winds like that? John pulled the picnic table up next to the RV, trying to protect the two little five gallon propane tanks that we use to supply heat to our rig. We use them to supplement the big tank that is housed in a compartment on the underside of our rig. Can’t you just see those little guys hurling away, and on the way to who knows where, ripping the hose out, spraying propane all about. We are setting among some trees, on the top of a foothill in the Cascade Mountains. We are hunkered down in a field of snow, not deep only a inch or two. No telling what the night will bring.
John went down the hill to get some things from the store. I declined tagging along with him, as I am fully aware that to get back here, he has to drive up the ice/snow crusted very steep road. When he finally got back, he said that it took him three tries to get up the hill! I am so glad I stayed home.
It has been in the high teens today, so it more then likely will get very very cold tonight. I am looking forward with a great deal of apprehension to what the morrow will bring. I will let you all know, if I live through the next twenty-four hours, how this story plays out. I forecast gloom and doom!
Something about you guys and bringing the really bad weather here. Like you told me, just dig your toenails in and hold on for dear life!
Oh my gosh!!! I sit kind of in a canyon. We get really bad weather here too. No high winds though. Though there is a huge tree leaning my direction makes me kind of nervous. Sunday was the the first day of winter. The future does not look good.
We are a little farther north than your location but I think we all missed that high wind bullet. They didn’t turn out to be quite as bad as they could have.
Are you guys staying here in the NW through the winter? I really enjoyed Snowbirding but after Annie & my last trip together, when we headed south in early December, we decided we wanted to stay north to be with family over Christmas. Is that your plan?
I wish Pat liked to travel like Annie did. She was up front about it before we married but I guess I hoped she would grow to like it and only thought she didn’t because she hadn’t done much traveling. I think that when the weather gets better, especially if the fuel prices stay fairly low, that we will use our RV more this next year than we did this year. But it will probably be on trips of a week or less for the most part.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and your family and continue to enjoy your traveling lifestyle. There are a lot of us who would like to travel along with you.
Stopping by to wish you a Happy New Year. Hope you weathered the storm and are snuggled in, warm and cozy.