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Old 04-09-2009, 08:08 PM   #4
McKannick
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Arrow Park ranger panic!

Well, OK, Bro, the weather was great Saturday the 4th April, but Sunday had the rain moving in A.M. Let up during the day but cranked up again big time after dark and around 8 P.M. the TV had tornado warnings on 'til 2 AM'. So we're watchin' the tube and about 9 PM or thereabouts, the park ranger comes crusin' thru the place hollering over the PA that there's a tornady a headin' thisaway, sighted on the ground in Alabama about an hour west of here. So then he says if the thing hits, head fer th' outhouse. The only 'structure' around, and made of concrete block, except for the roof of course. So, this panics a bunch of tent campers, other folks and us into thinking 'well, we're only an hour away from the house and 'there's a tornado comin' this way'. And another thing, howya gonna get folks from 2 or 3 dozen campsites into one little shower / outhouse?? So whut are we standin' round here fer? We hop in the truck and skeedaddle out of the park and make it about 5 mile or less north of Pine Mountain, it's rainin' so bad we can't see the road. So, we u-turn back to the park, and it seems the worst is over already. Just a couple flooded places in the park roads and about 10 PM the rain fades away. And about 11 PM the TV takes off the 'warning' from the screen. So we fall onto our cheapo original factory supplied camper bed and call it a night. (We've upgraded the cheapo mattress with a really nice 3" foam topper now, should be dramatic improvement over original.)
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