Saturday 21 August 2021
Wednesday the 11th I returned the old motor to the guy I bought the boat from and got part of my money back. Now we have the boat with new registration in our name, no motor, and a trailer with no title(on the way the man says). Found a motor in State College planned on pick on Friday the 13th then Saturday and finally got it on Monday. We put it on the boat Tuesday but didn't put in the water because of pending heavy rain. But we are ready to go. Then Tuesday evening it started to rain.
It rain Tuesday night over 2 inches, no big deal. Wednesday it rained 3 inches kind of a deal but no worries it is a big lake. Wednesday night it rained 3. 4 inches and the lake just ain't THAT big. I went to bed around 9:30 at 10:00 the rangers knock on the door, we needed to help them evacuate the Bench section of the campground. So in a driving rain Diane went to assign vacant camp sites to people having to move. I went to move our boat to higher ground then down to get the kayaks out of the rising water. To late the water was already knee deep by the time I got there. I moved all five kayaks to a safer spot. Just in the time it took to get the last kayak, the water camp up over a foot. I went back to the Moho put on dry clothes had a glass of wine and waited for Diane to come in. The rain quit about midnight and at 12:30 am Diane comes in just dripping wet, changed and we walked down to check the water level before heading to bed just after 1:30 am. I thought I heard noise around 4:30 but fell back to sleep. At 5:00 am a loud knock, Rudy started barking and I was awake. I stumbled to the door only to find Ranger Brad and I could tell by the look on his face, we had to evacuate! No hurry we had a couple of hours. By now we were just getting on and off rain showers but rain none the less. Diane packed up the inside, stuffing things anywhere they would fit and we had a lot of stuff out. I packed up the out side. I made three or four trips moving big items up to the gate house. Bikes, table canopy, rugs, awning screen and bunch of other stuff all dripping wet and muddy just got moved higher up the hill. Diane kept making coffee and offering breakfast bars to keep us going.
By 9:30 am we arrived at Ives Run volunteer spot. We parked the Moho, plugged in, and hooked up the basics before just sitting and having a coffee. Completely drained and with everything wet we couldn't rest long. We cleaned all day separating damp, wet and soaked stuff to dry out. Talked to Jen and Greg just a bit. Burgers and bed 8:30. The last 24 hours we went through 3 or 4 sets of clothes, had mud, water and debris everywhere inside and out and just 3 hours of sleep. OMG what a day.
We had over 7 inches or rain in two and half days and making it worse they cut the out flow from the dam because of down stream flooding. Many, many small towns around here had flooded roads, washed out bridges, downed trees and power lines. And I almost for forgot Diane was to head down state for Morgan's baby shower but we couldn't even think about it at all.
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| All settled at Ives Run, this is our evening sky!! |
Friday the 20th of August 2021 the sun came up time to get back to normal. Diane picked up a rental car a headed down state. I made two trips over to Tompkins(now closed for the year) to pick up the things we left behind. Still tired and still not rested well it was a struggle to focus. I left my glasses at Hall's, went to the post office but forgot to drop off the out going mail so I had to make another trip. But making progress on getting everything over to the new campsite.
So now we are at Ives Run, the boat is at Tompkins but both lakes closed until further notice. Doesn't that just figure. They will open I'm sure by early next week. The camp site is looking good and ready for a day or two of normal.
Saturday morning update!! Now that we are all moved over they may want us to move back on Monday to help with clean up. Oh yea!
Sunday 23 August 2021
I woke up to a noise around 3:30 am. As I looked out the window I saw something running across the road. Turns out it was a bear! He knocked the grill down cleaned out the grease pan and I can't image why, but he ate my work gloves. When daylight came I surveyed the area and the other campers no real damage but I need some new gloves.
I had breakfast with Jen and Greg visited for awhile then started cleaning up the camper for Diane's return from Morgan's baby shower trip.
No rain now for three days both lakes are open and things are getting back to normal. I think we are moving back to Tompkins tomorrow and stay there until Labor Day or so.
I picked Diane up in Mansfield we went to look at a piece of land and drove the back way home. A nice end to a crazy week!!
Oh yea, I (Diane) had a great weekend visiting with Shane, Morgan, Lynne and Rick. The baby shower was wonderful, and everybody had a great time.
Morgan just loved her cookie table.....she does have a sweet tooth. 😊
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