Camping Vacation Continued-Mon., June 30, 2008

Randall got up and left at 6:30 A.M. so that he could be back at the house to start work at 8:00 on Monday morning. I got up right after he left and went outside. I found that the wind was blowing around 40 mph. There were no storms visible on the horizon. Just a constant wind blowing out of the north towards our camper which was making our awning really move around. I began to worry that it was going to come lose. So I decided to go ahead and try to put it down. Randall had showed me how to do it the day before. But it seemed a little complicated. I just took my time and was finally able to get it down. After that, I sat in my chair and enjoyed the great breeze. I spent the morning relaxing by walking around the camp with Camp and walking down the pier and sitting there for a while. Around 2:00, storms began to form all around me. I decided I better listen to the weather channel and see if anything severe was forming. The last place I wanted to be in severe weather was in that little camper with direct winds coming off the bay towards it. Sure enough, there was not only severe thunderstorm warnings, but also a tornado warning in Baldwin County. I secured everything at the camp as much as possible, gathered up Camp and got in the truck and headed to the nearest sturdy building I could find. We went to a convenience store down the road. I stayed sitting in the truck in the parking lot with the plan to go inside if the weather began to look like I needed to. I stayed there until after the time of the tornado warning expired. I then went back to the camp where everything was fine. But not 5 minutes after I got in the trailer, another huge storm with great winds came up. I was really scared. The camper, Camp, and I were all shaking. When I looked outside the rain was blowing completely horizontally. My cell phone was dead and we forgot the charger, so I had no way to call anyone. The storm lasted for about 10 minutes. Randall came about an hour later. We ate left over potato sald, baked beans and ribs. Later in the evening we had a gorgeous sunset. We also went down the road and got ice cream. We watched T.V. and then went to sleep.