Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

john smith wrote:

Jack, your dream sounds incredibly like AirVenture 2005!
You could be onto something there.

In my version, I believe you were in the pizza joint across the road
while Laurence and I were enjoying a fine meal at the Hilton while the
rain was sheeting the western windows.
Hmmmm, the more times I have this dream, the more it seems like it was
the Charcoal Pit. Something about beer, steak, more beer... :-P

It stopped raining long enough
for us to saunter back to our campsite and retire to our respective
tents.

I think this makes you the official OSH dinner weather consultant. We
were soaked in less than five seconds. In my nightmare, there was this
wall of water, gale force winds, and the sound of Jay laughing. Well,
ok, the sound of lots of people laughing.



--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Man, that WAS a storm, no? Actually with much harder rain than this
tornado produced.

(Thankfully, no hail in *that* one, or we -- and a billion dollars
worth of planes parked at OSH -- would have been toast! Can you
imagine how much the insurance adjusters must sweat during OSH week?)

Was this the '05 storm, you are talking about?
--
Jim in NC

(Thankfully, no hail in *that* one, or we -- and a billion dollars
worth of planes parked at OSH -- would have been toast! Can you
imagine how much the insurance adjusters must sweat during OSH week?)

Was this the '05 storm, you are talking about?

Yep. We (Jack, Steve, Montblack, et al) got caught in the torrential
downpour midway between the bar and our tent.

It was raining so hard, I couldn't run in my sandals -- the water kept
getting between my feet, and the soles of the sandals, and it was like
running on marbles...

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress. The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles. This year, they've got
their OWN inflatable mattresses...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress.

BTDT

The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles.

DTDT, too.

Last year, the mini-van was high and dry, *and* had no transmission
problems. g The worst I saw was a rather loud and violent flogging of my
front porch tarp.
--
Jim in NC

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress. The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles. This year, they've got
their OWN inflatable mattresses...
:-)

Do those come with their own paddles?

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Was this the '05 storm, you are talking about?

Yep. We (Jack, Steve, Montblack, et al) got caught in the torrential
downpour midway between the bar and our tent.


NOT Montblack on that particular foraging expedition.

I was back at the Circle R Campground quickly trying to get the
Hotel-Minivan ready for the night. I closed the "hatch" just as the rain
blew through.

I ended up comfortably high and dry that night - listening to the gentle
sounds that sheets of rain make when impacting a minivan's roof ...for
hours, and hours, and hours. Campground rain gauge read 5 inches the next
morning.


Montblack
http://www.circle-r-camp.com/
They do need a temporary outdoor shower set-up during OSH. I'd use it. (Cool
water, 60-70F "on demand" water heater). They only have three shower stalls
for men - in the entire campground! My only squawk about the place. The
shower line starts at 6:00 am. Not good.

"Jack Allison" wrote in message
...
Jay Honeck wrote:
I won't make that mistake again.

Phew, for a minute, I thought you were going to say you were looking at
Pilot Mycast on your cell phone. I have this strange dream where you're
showing this to a bunch of us, we're in a nice restaurant (under a Tornado
watch), we're done with dinner and walking back to camp...when...wham,
instantly soaked. Poof, then I wake up in a cold sweat...no, wait, it's
not sweat, it's a tent dripping on me :-)

In May, 2001, my family and I were sitting in a restaurant in Lorton,
Virginia, for dinner during a vacation. From our table I could see the TV in
the bar area, and there was a Tornado Warning being broadcast.

From what I could gather of the map, it seemed it was RIGHT HERE. No one in
the restaurant was making any bones about it. So I was guessing, well, maybe
it was not _that_ close to us.

While eating our crab (of course, it was Virginia) appetizer, I heard the
unmistakable sound of a train. Remembering the old adage I'd heard in my
youth about the noise it makes. I jumped up and got ready to head for the
basement, but noticed no one else was making a scene (like the Yankee...me).

A few seconds later I heard the ding...ding...ding from the crossing, and
looking outside, realized the train station was across the street on the
other side of the restaurant from which we'd entered.


--
Matt
---------------------
Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

They do need a temporary outdoor shower set-up during OSH. I'd use it. (Cool
water, 60-70F "on demand" water heater). They only have three shower stalls
for men - in the entire campground! My only squawk about the place. The
shower line starts at 6:00 am. Not good.

THREE shower stalls for that whole campground???

Man, that sucks. At OSH, a daily shower is NOT optional...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

THREE shower stalls for that whole campground???

Man, that sucks. At OSH, a daily shower is NOT optional...

Sun-n-fun does much better. They have =permanent= showers, with lots of
hot water.

Jose
--
The price of freedom is... well... freedom.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Man, that sucks. At OSH, a daily shower is NOT optional...

Sun-n-fun does much better. They have =permanent= showers, with lots of
hot water.

In the fly-in camping area (AKA: The North 40) there are plenty of
showers. We all cruise them pretty quickly, no lines, no waiting.

Montblack is talking about a shortage in Camp Scholler, the drive-in
camping area.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"