Monday July 8th 2024

It was a little more overcast today, which allowed the air conditioning in my RV home to keep up with the above normal heat the area is experiencing. The rain also found this area during the afternoon. It brings the upper nineties temperature down to the eighties at least as long as the rain lasts. This weather pattern is forecast to continue most of the week.

Based on the forecast I didn’t think today would be a very good outside activity day. I needed to pick up a few gallons of drinking water to help keep hydrated. During my last shopping trip to Walmart they were out of water by the gallon. I bought 40 bottles of water instead. Twenty liters of water in half liter bottles seems to go faster than the 5 plus gallon equivalent in gallon jugs.

After driving around for about an hour, I planned to stop at Walmart on my way home. Mother nature had other ideas. The sky opened up with the first shower of the afternoon just as I was approaching the store. I didn’t have the desire to get drown walking from the car to the store or the store to the car, so I’ll have to go back tomorrow. These afternoon storms dump a lot of rain really fast. Parking lots go from dry to a few inches deep in water in the blink of an eye it seems. I still managed to get soaked going the ten feet from my car to my RV home, but at least my feet stayed dry.

My daily walk around the RV park was shorten once again. The second or third round of storms was approaching the area when I set out on my walk. I loop around along one of the nearby camping loops and got inside before the wave of rain arrived. Overall there have been four rounds of rain since mid afternoon. The first one was the only heavy one. A few more are possible overnight.