Caching South in Keene & Severe Weather TX 5/17/2010

Today we drove to a small town south of us called Keene to do some of the many caches in the area. There really wasn't to much that was anything earth shattering or historical. In fact we couldn't believe that the town was as small as it was and still had so many caches in it. We did 3 cemetery caches, two that were in the rafters of gazeboes and one in the woods behind a tree. Other caches were located in a closed restaurant, a closed gas station, at a Sonic in the landscaping, an old closed airport shed, a windmill, in the crook of a large oak tree, in a fir tree, in a stump, on a fence post and one in the middle of a small woods. Other unusual hides were one at Southwestern Adventist College by the cafeteria, in a rock garden at a private home, in a yucca plant (and are they sharp too), in a bird house at someone's home and a rubber snake in a bunch of bushes. Well as you can see nothing to awful interesting but it was fun.

We drove back to the coach for lunch and for the afternoon and had just finished lunch when all heck broke loose. We had a storm like we have never seen since the Labor Day storm we had in Camillus. The wind blew probably 40-50 mph, it rained so hard that at one point we couldn't see 1 inch out the front of the RV. Thunder and lightening like you never saw and last but not least hail. The hail wasn't that big, thank goodness, but it was about the size of peas. We had one lightening strike that we swear couldn't have been more than 10' from the coach. The rain came down in buckets full for about 45 minutes and then tapered off gradually. Other areas around here got it much worse than we did. Some got hail the size of baseballs and some got so much hail it accumulated on the ground like snow would. The flooding was quite bad to as we saw pictures on the news of Seagoville, TX and the whole town was flooded. Hope we don't run into to many more storms that bad as we travel.

Well that's about it for today so we will close now and we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad Dori & Dick