A Pan B Day

Monday, May 18, 2015  

Today was our first Plan B day even though we didn't have a Plan B.  Our early morning wake up was about 12:30 a.m. when the first of many weather alerts awoke us to say there were severe thunder storms approaching Vicksburg with later reports telling us there was going to be flash flooding.  The thunder rolled, the lightening lighted and the rain was torrential.  It hardly let up  a bit.  At 5:30  when getting up for an early morning call to you know where, I noticed that the floor and the end of my side of the bed was wet.  Turning on a light, we discovered that the light fixture was dripping water onto the floor and the very end of my side of the bed.  Stripping off the covers and putting down plastic and the rubber sided bath mat to absorb the water we returned to bed only to discover this was not going to work.  I had to put a pan under the dripping water which I then emptied about 4 times over the next couple of hours with about 1/4 inch of water in the bottom each time.

Deciding that we would just stay at this campground and wait out the storm, we had breakfast and saw a couple of our fellow campers outside getting ready to leave.  Ron ventured out to see that the culvert with bridge across from the campground to the office was full of water nearly to the road out of the campground and the ground next to the road out was showing signs of erosion from the water.  My son in law the Fire Chief in Texas always told us, if the water is up to the steps of your RV, you better get out.  This not being the case but noting that we might be in danger if the waters in the area rose any higher, we like others immediately got ready to leave.  After leaving the campground, we made a check of the RV and car to be sure everything was in order before proceeding further.  We also had discovered that the weather in this area and north where we had planned to go,was going to continue for the next five days which would only mean more water in the RV, etc..

Time for Plan B.  Seeing that it was clear to the east of Jackson, MS and further on, we proceeded to I-20 and headed to Alabama where we found a campground in the little town of Helena, just south of Birmingham where we will stay for two nights.  We are able to contact a mobile RV repair man who can look at our problem on Tuesday.  Hooray!