Yesterday was supposed to be our last full day in Louisville, MS, but we made a plan change due to being cowards about the weather. We were monitoring the Weather Underground on the phone and it indicated severe thunderstorms and tornadoes would plague any travel today, at least in eastern Mississippi. We extended our stay here one day by contacting the desk. We also contacted them about where we could hunker up and kiss our asses goodbye should a tornado make a local appearance. We passed through a section of the local Tombigbee National Forest a few days ago where a tornado had made a pass through standing timber. It looked like a giant set of Pick-Up Sticks. We made a pass into town to stock up on supplies yesterday.
Starting this morning, the advance of the thunderstorms crossed our location and the buggers were open for business. There was no pansy drizzle to announce the advent of worse weather. It started out raining hard and kept at it for about 6 hours. Lightning flashed. Thunder cracked and rumbled. Fortunately, any tornadoes went elsewhere so the trailer is still where we parked it.
We got cozy inside the trailer and stayed there while it raged outside. Our trailer (and probably all other trailers) have inherent weaknesses in their cheezy construction. Our trailer, for instance, has a grate outside where the refrigerator is vented and, if the grate faces into the prevailing wind when it is raining, a small trickle of water ends up crossing our floor emanating from the back of the fridge enclosure. Here in Louisville, though, we must have parked in the correct orientation because it rained like a bastard and we were dry as a bone. I imagine the new trailer roof we got in San Antonio might have helped, too.
We’ll be on our way tomorrow.
There’s pix of Louisville from yesterday and the gullying behind our trailer today if you click here