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mdbass

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Posted: 03/19/12 10:23pm

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Hope everyone is snug and have their hatches battened down in South Texas. We have had gusts near 60 mph and the sustained speeds are above 30 mph. I hope we'll be OK-it's not like we can move. I'm a little nervous!

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Posted: 03/20/12 03:57am

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I have always liked camping on the edge of a lake, but this is not what I had in mind. Wow...lots of wind, lightning, and obviously water.

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Posted: 03/20/12 05:18am

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We just moved yesterday and got all set up.
Looks like we will be re-setting up today. Luckily, the rig move doesn't start until Wed.
The wind blew everything all over the place around here. We do not have standing water, but I'm sure there is lots of mud out there.

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Posted: 03/20/12 05:46am

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Thankfully, we're on the side of a hill so the water runs of quickly. The generator side of the RV is sure standing in water though.

Being on the side of a hill makes leveling fun, but it's great when it rains.

Heard there was some tornado activity around San Antonio last night. Hope everyone up in that area is OK.

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Posted: 03/20/12 07:17am

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Well, we have lake front property also. The wind was unbelievable and the RV actually tipped up on one side, with the drivers wheels off the pad. Hopefully the jacks weren't damaged from the movement. Betsy came close to hollering uncle and heading home, about 3am.... [emoticon]

..Hope everyone survived, and have a good day today.

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Posted: 03/20/12 09:04am

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All the time we have been here(since October) we have never seen a frog, now with all the water there are frogs, yes green frogs, everywhere. They croak all night, about 6 right by our bedroom. I think it rain so hard in rained frogs.

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Well, we've been outside looking at our damage this morning:
Lawn chairs - Destroyed
Canopy - Destroyed
Lights - Bent up, but working with new bulbs
Satellite Dish and stand - Destroyed
2 Flags missing
Our Sewer trailer was moved about 15 feet

There were a few times during the storm that it felt as if the motorhome was being lifted, but everything looks OK.
Sure don't want to see another storm like that!!
We are from OK and are used to bad storms, but last night was sure scary...looks like we will have some tax deductions for this year.

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There was a gate guard on 72 trailer that got flipped.
That is what some are telling us. Does anyone know who it was?
We were told they did not get hurt.
Our 5th wheel did a lot of rocking around 3:am. Everything looks ok. I put things away last night around 11:00 p.m.
I really thought our awning was going to go. I tied some cable ties on the leg arm that was in the ground. The arm was sliding down the leg, and would not stay put. I looked around yesterday for a place or ditch to get in case we needed too. There was no place to get all flat here. Carol, glad you all were not hurt. You can always replace things, but not life.