Captain’s Blog
Thursday
Greenbelt Park, MD
Well, as predicted the torrential rains started last evening around 7 pm. The rain was coming down so hard through the night it kept waking us.
I’m not sure if I mentioned that we had a corner of the fiberglass roof that had lifted and Ronnie had made an attempt at fixing it before we left. Well, it didn’t work and we had water dripping through the AC vent over our bed. Not a lot of water but enough to be an issue that we couldn’t ignore. So at 7 am in the pouring rain we were outside with the ladder, plastic and duct tape trying to cover the area and stop the leak. Well, that didn’t work all that well and the rain kept leaking in. There was nothing more that we could do so we put a bucket under the leak, plugged the vent with towels to soak up the water and rode out the storm.
It was a long miserable day and since we had no utilities we ran the generator for a good part of the day to listen to the weather reports regarding flooding and the tornado watches and warnings issued for the entire Washington DC area. Yeah, just what I wanted to hear – tornado warnings.
Around 4 pm the rain slowed, but not the leak and we decided we needed to get out of the MH for a while. So off we went to the grocery store buying stuff we didn’t need.
Back at the MH we settled in with some junk food and waited for the second round of storms to hit us. Some parts of the area had already received 6-7 inches of rain and roads were washed out. Now another band of rain was expected to drop 3 or more inches on the area.
r0n Note:
NAN the Witch, dropped by our Campsite bringing rain tornado warnings and the like.
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