Scary storm! 3-20

Spring blew in on a wicked scary storm!  We hardly got any sleep....the wind whipped and screamed hard for a better part of the night...not surprising I woke up to no power in the wee hours of the morning.  Having had the alarm set for 6 meant I was going to keep waking up to check the time on the cell phone...but like I said not sleeping going on.  The rain we got sounded heavier than it was being driven against the windows by the wind...I think I energetically made sure the big pine trees above us stayed in tact because my arms were sore in the morning...hahahaha.

The power still wasn't on when we got up and as it was dark we got ready to go by flashlight....applying make-up with a flashlight was kind of scary...I was afraid the results might look like one of Carol Burnett's characters...going without wasn't an option either....it turned out okay.  We finally got on the road by 7:30 and it was still windy, but it had settled down to a regular wind.  A tree had come down across 49 at some point over night but it was already cleared out...nice.

So we were trekking up to Yreka to meet up with Michelle to bring Seth back with us for this week of his spring vacation.  It is half way for both of us and makes it easier on all of us to get our Grandson fix and for Seth to hang with us.  We had lunch together...transferred what seemed like his entire bedroom to our truck from their car and back we came.

The Yolo causeway area in Sacramento was full of water and it had whitecaps on it on our way up but was calm on our way back.  We were happy to see Lake Shasta full (these pictures are of Lake Shasta) and even though it snowed on us around Dunsmuir the roads weren't slick or frozen.  Coming back we hit a few heavy downpours of rain that slowed everyone down until we drove out of it.  We even saw a teeny sun ray and a couple of rainbows at some point.

We were back at home by 6:30 and the power was back on.  It was 294 miles up and so 294 back...and the FUEL!  One hundred and thirty bucks...shocking!!!!!  We are starting to think that the 5th wheel might not move very often again.  Wow, we thought the price of diesel was ridiculous back in 04 when we hit the road full-timing...now we are glad we have landed.  Seems that soon we will have to start shopping for an car with mega mileage.

Sleepy Seth