If ever your town is in the middle of a drought, there is a solution. Invite us to come camping there. I have tent camped through flash floods, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind sheer... you name it. It just seems to be our luck. Same goes for float trips; they are a recipe for rain.Once, on the Meramec River, while floating with my husband and his brother up from Florida, it was raining so hard we could not see and the canoe was filling up. We pulled off to a gravel bar, unloaded the gear, turned the canoe upside down and wedged on end in a tree so we could sit under it. The river rose. We moved the canoe farther up the bank. The thunder and lightening began; the boat was aluminum. We lived to tell about it.
A different trip took us to Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas. The campgrounds are lovely and shaded, down in the hollow. It's a cool and protected place to pitch a tent, unless there is a thunderstorm. Thunder echoed all night off the cavernous bluff walls. Rain pelted the tent, blowing from all sides. Water seeped in from below. Then the wind began to move the tent. It was beyond frightening, AND I had to go to the bathroom. Finally, the wind ceased and the rain turned to a drizzle. In the morning, we struck camp, rented a room in the lodge and went to the laundromat. "Did you hear about the tornado last night?" we were asked. "Went right over the park." Peachy. But we lived to tell about it.
So if it's too dry down your way, let us know. Be be careful what you ask for.
2 comments:
It sounds like you are in SE MO too. The rain has really put a damper on spring sales..pardon the pun ;) I found you when I was looking up an heirloom iris called grape soda, but it looks nothing like the one in my yard that a customer told me that their mother, (who lived in this area 40 + yrs ago) had in her yard. She called it grade soda. it's white with purple stripes .
PF-
My house is in St. Louis, but my heart is further south. We just spent 5 days in Sam A Baker, and the rains were torrential.
RG
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