Michigan Storm in Texas - Not right

So Thursday started out warm and humid. Nothing new about that, this seems to have been the pattern for the last couple of weeks. Chance of rain was 40% which means about 4 drops of rain if we're lucky. Had a nice day out with Marilynn, Shellie (Marilynn's DIL from WI), Helen and I. Went to Kohls and spent several hours there. That evening was our last social event up at the clubhouse. Sloppy Jo's furnished by the Committee with everyone bringing a dish. We started this last year and we call it our "Tail-Light Party" as all we see this time of year is tail lights heading out of the park.

Around 8:30 the wind started picking up than all hell broke loose. Rain coming side ways, Lighting filling the sky, thunder booming and the wind was unbelievable. I went up and turned the bedroom TV on to see what the local channels have to say. Just as it came on the weather man said they would interrupt the program if another funnel cloud spotted. Hmm, this didn't sound to good so checked other channels, nothing. Put it on the weather radio channel and listened for awhile than it came on with a tornado warning for our county. Funnel spotted at Shary and Frontage Road which is about 5 miles from here, put at least it was moving in the other direction. Back to the local channels to get updates, would you believe there was not one weather report on any of the stations other than a little box down in the bottom showing the warning. Sure is different than up north, they come on with a whole crew and stay on until storms are over. Anyway the rain was coming side ways and our street looked like a roaring river. The wind was a really bad, gusts over 60mph and I just kept waiting for our awning to go flying. Kind of nerve racking for a couple of hours. At least with the storms up north they come and go within a short time but this one just wouldn't quit.

We were lucky as we didn't get this hail at our place but it was only a few miles away
Some places had 3ft drifts
Than the rain came and the flooding started
this is at Ware Rd for those who know the area
Unbelievable

Today (Sunday) we went out to lunch with several friends and came back through one of the areas hit by the hail. Many streets are still closed cause of the limbs, glass etc. The trees are all stripped of their leaves and many homes, business had windows boarded up. The area around here does not have the proper storm drains to handle three + inches of water a hour so many schools were closed do to flooding inside. As I said our park was very lucky and other than a few trees and shingles off that was the extent our the damage.

Remember the guy I told you about last week who purchased all the lots, well guess he wasn't done and bought several more. I'm not sure I would put all my pennies in one park but it's helped. This has been the best year of sales since the year we bought ours and in the last 60 days they have sold 30 lots. Sure will look different next fall when we come back.

Donna and Grant left on Wednesday. Hated to see them pull out but they wanted to see friends in Florida before heading north for the summer. Miss you guys but we'll see you sometime this summer in Michigan. Bob and Linda Elliott also pulled out this morning heading for their home in TN. They recently purchased Doug and Jutta Franks lot (just 2 down from us) and I had to snap a picture of them loading their car.

They have a big truck that they drive their vehicle up on and pull their 40' 5th Wheel
I wouldn't want to do this

Friday night Kathy and Bill had everyone (10 of us) over for dinner. They are leaving tomorrow for Windsor and she wanted to empty out the refrigerator. Had a wonderful meal and it was a great time sitting there talking with our friends. Again we'll miss them but we have plans to get together this summer.

The first of the week we went over and closed up the other trailer. Larry ordered some silver window insulation to put in our windows. Love Amazon.com - when he purchased his Kindle Fire he joined this Amazon Prime. It's like $80 dollars a year and with that he gets so many books free, but the best part is anything we order from Amazon that's marked Prime is shipped two day express free and no sales tax. With tax here at 8.5 it's paid for itself. So now if we need anything we always check there first before going to the big box stores.

Weather has been very warm and forecast is showing the same. Highs in the 90's and lows in the 70's. Found out that Dairy Queen is having a buy one blizzard and get the second one for 99 cents. So a quick call to Marilynn and Gary and we were on our way.

Guess that's it for this week. Travel safe to all our friends heading north. Till next time..........