We rode out the storm!
It must have been a hell of a storm because the rumor floating through
the campground is that The Weather Channel was in the area that night – “…and you
know it has to be a good storm to get The Weather Channel here!”!
I had set up the camper by cracking the windows on the side
the wind was coming in at and opening windows on the other side. If I could keep an air flow path there would
be less air pressure to rock the trailer.
The plan worked fairly well!
There were two unplanned results.
First the gusting of the wind caused the zipper on the back-bunk window
to work open the window more than intended.
This caused the mattress in that bunk to get soaked. The second was that rain with a 40 mile per
hour gust goes everywhere! We got water
under a bunk end flap and than the bed sheet to wicked moisture up into our
bunk – not bad but the mattress corner got pretty wet from it.
By the time we woke up the wind had subsided – the rain was
still with us though. We gathered up the
stuff we needed to get dry and headed to the Laundromat near the Food Lon. We pull into the lot to find the place
closed. A quick run to Dunkin Donuts
for coffee and the clerk tells us that there is one off of 8th
street bay side in Ocean City.. We head
to Ocean City and make our way through the bayside part of town to find the
water level inches from cresting the docks and several streets impassable because
of flooding. Explains what brought The
Weather Channel out. We do find the Laundromat
and I get to spend 30 minutes watching hot rods go past!