HURRICANE IRENE HAS COME AND GONE

Just wanted to let everyone know that we rode out Hurricane Irene successfully.  We were unable to get into our RV park in Dumfries as they had closed up due to the storm.  We ended up in a Walmart parking lot, battened down the hatches and road it out there. 

The view out our front window in the early afternoon.  Just a rain storm at this point.

The day started out with a light rain which progressed to a very heavy rain.  It didn't start getting windy until late afternoon.  From there it just continued to rain harder and get windier . . . probably 45 mph gusts.  I'm assuming during the night was when the brunt of the storm came through as it really got windy and the RV was rocking pretty good.  It was hard to sleep when a gust would come along and start us rocking.

It's breezy this morning but no rain.  With any luck,  by tomorrow, we'll be back to the beautiful sunny weather we've been having.  Hopefully the RV park is going to re-open today and we can check in.  We're about 20 miles from Washington DC so we will camp there for about a week and take day trips into the city.  We think we'll be able to catch a communter train and not have to worry about driving.

There you have it.  We had to travel all the way from British Columbia to go through an earthquake and a hurricane.  Just one exciting adventure after another in our travels.