April 25

Today started out fairly normal, but it certainly didn't end up normal. At about 6 am this morning, a storm front came through the Green Acres RV at Idabel, OK. After a delay of about 2 hours, Carol took us out with instructions not to get too far away. The skies looked like they would open up any minute. After about 4 miles, that is exactly what happened. Carol rescued us and we started back towards Idabel. Well, when we got to the 70 Bypass, it stopped raining, so John suggested that we walk the 4 miles to Highway 70. Which we did, except the rain started again so we called it a day, we got seven miles on the books. Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will go back and walk the 9 miles that we missed today and then fast forward to Highway 70 and on to Broken Bow.

 

Speaking of Broken Bow, we moved the RVs here after the walk. We were parked at the Broken Bow Motel RV Park when another strong storm approached. We thought it would be a good if we retreated to the lobby of the motel and after we were there about 15 minutes, another park resident came into the lobby and announced that a tree had been blown on our motorhome.

John and I went to see who's RV was damaged. It was ours. A tree was blown across the back of the RV and punched 2 holes in the roof. Also, there was damage to the heater vent and the AC cover. The man who told us about the damage said his brother in Idabel had a chainsaw and that he get it and cut the tree off the motorhome. He and his wife got on the roof and in about 15 minutes had the tree removed. This is not going to be a quick fix, so we will see if we can patch the roof temporarily until we get to Hot Springs.

 

No one was hurt, we are OK. Jolie Blonde was in the motorhome at the time and looked a little shell shocked, but I believe she is OK. Other than that, everything went pretty well. We found some deer antlers, a screwdriver and .70 cents. Stay tuned .....