storms – Julia A. Keirns – Author, Blogger, Writer

Post Storm – Traveling with Rich & Julie

The storms and wind rocked and rolled the RV most of the night and sleep was intermittent at best.

Thunder and lightning woke us up, along with the weather warning system on our phones. My stomach sunk just once and thoughts of damage entered my mind.

I am so glad we have a NOAA weather radio in the RV.

I have to admit though that I do love the sound of the rain hitting the roof. You just don’t hear that in a well-insulated house.

I believe the warm gulf air was fighting with the cold north air and lost.

Temperatures overnight were near 70 degrees, and it looks like we will be getting temperatures below freezing this coming weekend.

We just can’t get away from the cold. A friend of ours is parked down near Tampa, Florida and their temperatures are only in the 50’s.

The campground shuts off the water in the entire park at 32 degrees. Looks like we will be without water for several nights.

Today we did a Walmart Grocery Pickup and decided to drive around and see if there was any storm damage I could photograph.

The first thing we noticed was how badly the stoplights were swaying in the wind. It is still quite windy here.

Check out the high waves in the top photo. We were told they were 12 to 17 feet high.

We drove along Highway 292 to 98 out to Pensacola Beach and Pier. We found a few places where water was across the road but it wasn’t very deep.

I saw one broken telephone pole and almost wasn’t quick enough with the camera.

There were quite a few palm tree leaves on the ground but we didn’t see any fallen trees.

In some places the white sand was drifting across the road like snow does up north. I wonder if they call them sandplows down here instead of snowplows?

The white sand blowing and drifting sure reminded us of Ohio.

Most of the beaches were closed today but we were able to get some cool pictures of the waves from the road.

We heard on the radio that the Navarre Beach Pier sustained some damage and will be closed until further notice.

We drove all the way there and couldn’t see anything in particular.

A sign was tipped over and a worker truck was there to fix it.

It was a fun day driving around looking for something to photograph. We came home and played cards with two friends. Walt is from eastern Ohio and Alex is from Arkansas, although she has lived in a lot of different states over the years.

Walt lost a piece of his RV in the wind, but not a vital part. I don’t think anyone else in the campground had any damage.

Life in the RV was good today.

We left our traditional house and way of life behind and pulled out of the driveway in an RV on April 25, 2022. We are coming up on two years soon and I have loved every single day of the adventure.

Thanks for reading and allowing me to share our adventures with you.

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The Stormy Days – Traveling with Rich & Julie

I am combining two days into one post, January 7 and 8. Why? Because it was windy and stormy both days. We stayed home for the most part.

Today is January 8th and we are under high wind warnings, storm warnings, and coastal flood warnings here in southern Alabama. I saw on the weather channel that tornadoes could be possible closer to Mississippi and Louisiana. But that isn’t very far away from where we are.

If you look closely in the photo above you can tell there are raindrops on the windows. It’s been windy and raining most of the day.

Rich went outside and put everything away. He put the awning in, the lawn chairs and tables away as well as anything else that could blow away or get damaged by the wind. We have noticed several of the other campers doing the same thing this morning.

On the radar channel, it looks like the worst of it might miss us thank goodness. My right knee continues to get worse, so the more I stay home and keep it elevated the better.

I crocheted some more on the alpaca scarf for my new friend. It is coming along quite nicely. This is called a v-stitch. It is simple and easy even for beginning crocheters.

I find a lot of free crochet patterns on Pinterest.

Rich and I were playing cards and he said he needed to run to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes. I told him to bring me home something to drink. I didn’t specify.

He came home with something new. A 24 oz. can of Simply Spiked Peach. It is 5% alcohol, kind of like a beer. I’ve never had it before but he knows I liked the Busch Lite Peach when we tried it. I love this. It tastes exactly like carbonated peach juice with a little kick.

I thought the neighbors from Canada had a funny-looking dog until I looked closer and discovered that it was a huge fluffy cat. I’m glad to see that they leash it when letting it out. They have it on a 30-foot leash so it has room to roam. Some campers don’t.

I remember when we camped in the state of Washington, and we heard a horrible catfight outside late at night. The next morning the neighbors told us they were outside and saw it. One cat almost killed the other one. We heard quite a few catfights in that campground.

I don’t feel it is right that they let their cats loose like that. Dogs can’t be let loose, and cats should not be allowed to be loose either.

Either the strong winds affected the wi-fi signal or everyone else stayed in and was overloading it because our television was iffy at best.

We dug out the DVDs and watched movies on the DVD player. We haven’t had to do that for a while. We have a nice DVD binder that we keep them in. We had a lot more DVDs than this, but we sold what didn’t fit. You can buy binders that hold up to 400. I wish I had done that when we moved into the RV. We sold and gave away some great movies.

As the daylight goes away and darkness sets in tonight I have received more warnings on my phone.