Last night another gulley washer. This time in the AM the trails @ Lincoln parish had puddles. No way is it going to dry out. Nix on riding Bodeau also. Decided to drive S in LA seeking cajun influence and then over into Texas. Haven’t stumbled onto them yet.
Drove 2 lane roads. Houses run the normal gamut of well done albeit smaller here and the dumps. Pretty flat, some fields had standing h2o in the crop rows. Levees are big. When it rains the h2o has little place to go.
Found a Walmart that does not allow overnight parking.
Saw 2 dead wild pigs off the side of the road. What attracted me was a crow standing on top of something black. 2 pigs together, no idea how they met their demise. Added to my photo collection.
Flutters are all but gone and leg knot almost gone.
Made just N of Lake Charles and was thinking of staying in a XG but spotted an office bldg parking lot. Hot, 76 deg & humid. Forecast is for another bad T-storm. I turned on weather radio to “alarm” setting. Before I finished my lentil stew dinner it shrieked on w/ warning for severe t-storm w/ hail. I quickly drove next door to a drive in bank under their covered teller stations. Sky got dark, no wind, & then it hit: winds, pelting rain, lightening, thunder but no hail. Better safe than pelted.
I spoke w/ Paul @ Sportsmobile again and decided to splurge for a solar panel addition. He told me yesterday Austin received golf ball size hail that damaged car bodies & cracked windshields but didn’t harm the solar collectors. Hearing the body damage spurred me to the bank overhang.
Forecast is for rain tomorrow also.
Tomorrow is Texas working to Austin. Van work is scheduled for Tues & Wed.
Found small hole in balance ball that lets air out. Need to find right glue & patch to hopefully seal it. Dipped it in lake @ XG no bubbles. Washed it off under the hose & discovered small stream of bubbles. Stopped @ a Walmart believing they would have beach toy repair kits. Bought the one they had for patching pools.
testing.
Craig, check out Caddo Lake, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/caddo_lake/. This looks like what Louisiana is suppose to look like. Cyprus trees, aligators, and a chorus of frogs at night that will keep you awake. There is a blue highway going south down to the Highway 80? that goes thrrough a forest. Not so impressive until you realized you are on a raised roadway going through mile after mile of cyprus swamp. Ocassionally you come on a small raised piece of land crowded withthe shanties of some of the nicest but poorest black people you will ever meet.