Weather!

Out here in our part of California weather is rarely exciting.  We live near the San Francisco Bay and when we have one of our rare lightening storms teenagers can be found forming "lightening watch" parties down at the end of the road.  And a tiny rain shower is called a "storm".  It took me a long time to accept that after experiencing REAL storms in the Plains States.  So........

While we were planning this trip,  Texas was in the middle of SUPER HOT temps!  Joplin, Missouri was hit with that huge tornado, and those tornadoes kept going on and on!  And then there were floods, one of our planned campsites is still closed from the damage of them.  We knew we didn't have to worry about snow and sleet, we dealt with those in Grand Canyon last trip.  Hail could be a problem though, they are always showing those golfball-sized hail on the TV news.  But despite these fears we soldier on.....


Notice this information we found on the internet.  When it comes down to it tornadoes can be around 6 months of the year! 


One of the first things I did was to get a NOAA Weather Radio.  Of course, since we live in "boring weather area" I don't know if the "Alert"  function really works.


Our best wishes go out to all those caught in all that weather this past year.  We have earthquakes but compared to those tornadoes at least big earthquakes don't happen often.