Night of Excitement!

We've moved about 150 miles southeast of Fergus Falls and now we're in Granite Falls, MN. More on that in another post soon.

Last night (July 16) a major storm came through. We're fine, but it was very frightening. We could see the dark clouds and lightning, but didn't realize just how bad it might be. There was heavy rain and some hail, but the scary part was the wind. We have a windshield screen that is held on by powerful magnets (so strong I had a hard time separating them). It has a guarantee to withstand winds up to 60 mph. It blew off. Fortunately, it wrapped around a small tree next to our site and the magnets stuck together, so it wasn't going anywhere.

But that's how strong the winds were.

It was very scary inside the MH. Serious rocking and rolling. But we came out of it w/only a tiny bit of damage to one of the awnings. Others were not so lucky. The travel trailers seemed to have it the worst. One of them tipped completely over and is now on its side. Fortunately, the family had gone to the storm shelter.

The travel trailer next to us had blocks under their leveling jacks (most do). Evidently the wind lifted the trailer enough that the blocks blew away so that when it came back down the corner wasn't stable. That must have been quite a ride for them, rocking and rolling but being unstable on at least one corner.

The power is still out (as of Sunday morning) and the wifi was out during the storm, so we couldn't look at the weather radar to know what was happening. As you can tell, the wifi is back on.

We have a generator, so we're fine if the power doesn't come back on, though we're trying to use it sparingly.

After the storm, beautiful weather.

We've learned a couple things. Next time we see something like that headed our way, we'll bring the slides in so we have more stability. The trailer that tipped over was on the very end of the row, so they got the brunt of the wind. The neighbors on the "wind side" of us had damage, but the ones on the other side, where we provided some protection against the wind, didn't have any damage. We'll keep those things in mind when choosing a campsite in stormy areas.