{"id":3011,"date":"2018-07-05T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2018-07-05T02:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T02:09:32","slug":"july-4-shopping-and-thunderstorms-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"July 4  Shopping and thunderstorms in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tToday 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.<br \/>\n\tNot 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.<br \/>\n          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.<br \/>\n           See pix. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/hJt3xPwiT4GXqVLk7\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/?p=3011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramblingrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}