It was slow in the store today, a typical Monday. Once again the big seller was ice. There were some fisherman who came and bought ice three times,,,,three bags each time. Out in the sun and opening the cooler so much to get drinks, it just didn’t last long.
The day kind of dragged by and I was glad when 4 o’clock struck.
When I took my money bag over to the booth to turn in it, Lynn was getting ready to go out and tell the campers, RV’ers and tenters alike to batten down the hatches as a big storm was coming our way. Oh no, not again!
Tom, whom I was working with, did turn on the weather radio the last half we were working and we knew a storm was coming our way but then we found out the wind was enough that it was taking down the trees in its path.
If Lynn left the booth it would leave it unmanned so I told her I would take the golf cart and let everyone know that a storm with high winds was coming.
All over the campground awnings were being rolled up, lawn chairs folded and slid under rigs, toys and towels taken in for safekeeping and tenters putting all they could in trunks to ride out the storm.
As I was riding around the winds picked up and sky got dark like night and we all thought for sure were in for a replay of the storm from the previous week.
The rain started and it lasted all of ten minutes, the sun came out, the wind died down and it was over. For us any way. Twelve miles south, Ocean City, Maryland got hammered and twelve miles north Rehoboth Beach felt the brunt of the storm. We just lucked out, the storm split and we were in the middle. Awnings got rolled back out, lawn chairs unfolded and set back up, the toys came out and were played with again, trunks were unloaded and camp stoves and such set back up.
You just never know what Mother Nature is going to do.
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