Today we ventured out into the terrible heat to go shopping. The temperature seemed like it was in the low thousands and the humidity was lingering around 85% when we headed up the road to a local ScabMart. We got out for less than $200.
Not long after we got back to the air conditioned Nirvana of our trailer, the weather went from bad to worse because a vigorous thunderstorm passed over us and it was open for business. The storms here are spectacular with abundant lightning, a couple inches an hour precipitation, some big hail chunks and ear-splitting thunder. It is easy to see how folks here get flooded out because our campsite went from a nice park with lots of grass into a shallow lake in about 25 minutes. The wind or lightning zapped a nearby tree and right after the storm the staff got to work with chainsaws. Very exciting.
In the evening the locals demonstrated that fireworks are legal in Virginia, celebrating the 4th in style at least when they are not being electrocuted by the weather.
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