Leslie and David's Wanderings: 8 March 2025 We Almost Learned to Fly

We were woken up at 5Am this morning when the whole trailer shuddered and then began bucking wildly in extremely high winds. We have experienced high winds before but nothing like this. For the first time we were worried we might actually flip and were holding on to the sides of the bed for dear life. Poor Keira flew up into our bed for reassurance. Then we got hit by extremely heavy rain and dime size hail that made it impossible to talk over the noise from the roof. We had received no warning this storm was coming, nothing from our weather apps on our phones or from the National Weather Service. We later learned a man had died a few miles north of us near Cresson when his trailer flipped and rolled multiple times. After the sun came up, we went out to inspect the damage. The trailers on either side of us suffered significant damage (Broken sky lights, tail lights, etc). One lady claims she heard the sound of a train believing it was a tornado. We found a few shallow dents in the hood and side of the truck but nothing broken on the Behemoth or Wanderer. A few days later, David got up on the roof and found the cooling fins on both air conditioners had taken a beating and would need work to open them back up for air flow. The rear air conditioner took the brunt of it. The front air conditioner seems to have been sheltered a bit by the TV satellite antenna. The antenna case for the Cellphone amplifier was broken, but we don’t use the system anyways. Otherwise, no damage to our vents, solar panels or sky light. Some of the RVs in the campground suffer over $8,000 damage. David later got on the roof and spent a day straightening the cooling fins and performed the yearly maintenance work on the air conditioners. Overall, we were lucky and the good Lord was watching over us.