Storms, storms everywhere!

Sun. morning we woke up to a horrendous thunderstorm.  The lightning and thunder were simultaneous.  We had packed the outside stuff the night before, so all we had to do was unhook the utilities.  We moved the slides in and worked on getting the inside ready.  Then a torrential downpour started.  I heard water and discovered there was water pouring down the side of the slide into the RV. Remember back at Great Sand Dunes the slide topper was destroyed and removed? That would've been nice to have.  We threw all our beach towels on the puddle in the floor, with the exception of one we threw on top where the water was coming in.  We had a couple of hours before we could check in at the Horse Park campground, but we decided to leave a little early to beat the next storm.  Well, we ending up driving through one, but we made it there.  Not long after we got set up, a woman made an announcement over a loudspeaker that there was a tornado watch until 8pm.  It's one thing to be in my house with a basement during a tornado watch, but it's quite another to be in a campground in an RV.

We rode our bikes around the Horse Park to check it out.  There were some jumping competitions going on like there wasn't impending doom.  We had parked our bikes where the competitors parked. The common modes of transportation at these events are apparently golf carts and dirt bikes.

I was keeping up with the weather back in Va./Tn. via Facebook, and their tornado watch turned into a warning, and then I saw videos of actual funnel clouds there.  I'm glad everyone was okay!  We had some pretty skies after all the bad weather. 

Red sky at night

When I got back in from playing photographer, I discovered the tornado watch for us had been extended to 2am.  So then I had to stay up!  Luckily they canceled it around midnight.