big storm night of july 13

Well, it turns out that it was one hellava thunder storm! I was doing ok. Rain was hard and heavy. Some water on ground around me but not much when suddenly the wind shifted from the northeast to the west and because I had oriented my shelter for the predicted east winds that spelled the start of real trouble. In spite of the hard ground, pegs started to pull free water really started to flood into the ground around me and I decided that it was a time for a new strategy. I stuffed my sleeping bag into my bedroll in hopes it might stay a little dry. I flattened the tent as I did a while ago during that big wind storm on soft ground. Pegged that down. And headed over to Margaret and Dave's extra place where I had had a shower the other day. They said that I could sleep there and now I am in a bed and typing this little diatribe out. There is now power as the storm knocked that out. But I have my headlamp so I could figure out where the bedrooms were. I noticed that they have a dryer and washer. I expect that I may be making use of that tomorrow as well!

Once again luck has been with me via the kindness and generosity of folks that I have met on my journey. It's about 1 o'clock in the morning and I shall finally try to get some sleep! Signing off, a tired but dry Cath.