Time to build an ark?

We enjoyed our stay at the Lake Whitney RV Community; the premise of the RV port homes is very interesting, but the location of the park is just a bit far out for what we have in mind. We'll continue to search for the right situation.

We debated leaving today... Mother Nature showered us with rain all night. Checking with the weather weasels, it promised to be more of the same all day today. During a lull, we decided to head out. With a light sprinkle, I donned my raincoat and went out to unhook the utilities and get the coach ready to go. About the time I had everything unhooked and started backing the truck up to the 5th wheel, the sky opened up again. Too close to being ready to roll... I continued. Stepping out to lock the hitch, you could hardly see your hand in front of your face it was pounding so hard. Well, this is big fun.

Decision time: sit in the truck and wait for it to pass, rehook all the utilities and stay where we are (in the pounding rain), or put the truck in gear and pull away? Yeah, we're rolling. The two lane road from the campground to the nearest town had scads of standing water on it... the ditches on either side of the road were quickly filling... if we had waited any longer, this would only get uglier. With the wipers on their fastest setting and Big Red doing a whopping 35 mph, we made our way to the Interstate.

Less standing water on I-35, and lots more traffic. And even harder pounding rain. Nothing on the Weather Channel predicted this kind of downpour in this area. It was an hour of that while we headed south before the rain began to let up any.

Our destination for the day is the COE campground near Georgetown. When we turned off the Interstate, the precip was down to a very light mist. We drove around the campground and picked a site... something with a view of Georgetown Lake and a clear shot at the southern sky for the satellite TV.

This may be our first Corps of Engineers campground; neither of us are sure. Like most state park campgrounds, it is wooded. Electric, water, and a paved site. We'll likely spend a couple nights here before moving on.

As heavy as the rain was, the coach was nice and dry inside and underneath when we arrived - a very big plus!

One of the few sites that isn't heavily wooded...