Woke up to the pitter patter of rain pounding on the roof and we are packing to go to Panama City. I took Rudy out as soon as it let up a little. It continued to rain on and off most of the morning.
When I went out it rained and when I came in it quit. There wasn't a lot to do the only thing hooked up was electric. Diane packed up inside, we scoped out our escape through Home Depot parking lot and were on the road by 9:30 for a journey of 110 miles. We stopped for fuel and were not on the road for 30 miles when we started to see hurricane damage. For the entire rest of the trip the damage just got worse. Quite the humbling experience to see just how bad the damage was. And as you may expect high end homes, golf course developments and hotels are fixed or being worked on. But in the country north of here all you see is blue tarps and damaged homes with very few crews working. We both agreed we never need to see this again.
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| Our Site at Southside |
Anyway, we arrived at the Southside RV park, at the Naval Station Panama City around 12:15 just a little under 3 hours to go 110 miles. Sites are nice and well maintained. We walked around then Diane went to grocery store and I hooked up propane as temps are to drop into the 40's this week. Steaks on the grill and a nice evening on the patio.
Sunday March 3 2019
Weather men were calling for all day thunderstorms so we planed our day accordingly laundry, bill
paying and everyone's favorite taxes. As you can guess it never did rain but we did get a lot of unpleasant work done. The storm damage is not as bad here as it is to the east and north of us, but this is bad enough. Every day about 7:30 they bring in trucks that have loaders attached to pick up the tree/brush debris laying aside the road, yes 7 days a week and it has been about 5 months since the hurricane. We made breakfast on the grill and Diane made cabbage rolls in the crook pot so not all was lost. We did get a tornado warning early evening but nothing happened just a severe thunderstorm.
Monday March 4 2019
Cold this morning! Temps were down in the 40's when I got. It did manage to reach 60 this afternoon. We headed out to check the place out drove along the waterfront but just to cold and windy to get out so we went for lunch. We stopped at 'The Craft Bar' where they had 33 micro brews
on tap. I had number 11 can't remember the name but it was good. Diane had blackened chicken with roasted brussel sprouts and I had a spicy grouper sandwich both were excellent. We found a city park/preserve, a really large place about 2000 acres. We picked up a map and headed down a trail. Made a wrong turn and ended up at a dead end, checked the map turned around and went the other wrong way, checked the map and picked the only remaining path. It came out at the parking lot. by now it is 3:30 and we headed back to Rudy. Left over and snacks for dinner and yes the wind is still howling, hoping for better weather tomorrow.
Sunday March 3 2019
Weather men were calling for all day thunderstorms so we planed our day accordingly laundry, bill
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| Debris Truck one of many!! |
Monday March 4 2019
Cold this morning! Temps were down in the 40's when I got. It did manage to reach 60 this afternoon. We headed out to check the place out drove along the waterfront but just to cold and windy to get out so we went for lunch. We stopped at 'The Craft Bar' where they had 33 micro brews
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Using the boardwalk
to go over the swamp!!
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