Saturday September 2nd 2023

The hot and sunny weather pattern that has been dominate for the last few weeks is gone. Today’s high was in the mid eighties under a cloudy sky most of the day. It rained a little in the late morning and the sun attempted to break through the clouds late in the day.

The park today is so different from last weekend. There were about twelve RVs on average each night last weekend. On this holiday weekend there are less than ten empty sites out of sixty plus in the whole park. The atmosphere is more lively. There are even kids riding bicycles and scooters around. Many of the campers brought their boats with them. I don’t think many used them in today’s questionable conditions, but tomorrow should be a good day for boating. It is nice to see people taking advantage of the park’s resources. The only other holiday I’ve been here for is Independence Day a couple of years ago. I don’t recall the park being as busy that time, but it may not have been a true holiday weekend.

On my walks around the park today I kept a lookout for signs of the hurricane. One of the reasons I moved out of the hurricanes path was a concerned for flooding in the campground. When I was here in 2020 we were evacuated in the middle of a tropical storm because the campground was flooding. I talked with a camp host that was here then. She indicated that Wednesday’s event was nothing by comparison to the 2020 event. They got some wind and lots of rain with no flooding. My observations today pretty much confirmed that impression. There was debris in the culverts and signs of runoff along the sides of the road. I didn’t see any sign of standing water. While I don’t regret running from the storm, I would have been OK if I stayed here. You can’t be certain, it is safer to run.