God watched over us!

Well, no Devil's Tower today either.

Although we missed the storm around dinner time, the same couldn't be said for last night. Bobby woke up around 12:24AM. Around 1AM, is when the storm started. We had about 45 minutes of STRONG winds (70+mph) rocking the coach with pounding rain/hail.

Then there was a bit of a lull but still strong winds and rain, but not as severe. We took this opportunity to run over to the concrete bath house. Opening the door to the coach to leave, the wind ripped the door open, pulling Bobby out while his coat caught on the door frame, tearing open the fabric on his sleeve. Doesn't look fixable, so a new coat will be in his future. We then ran to the bathrooms and spent the next 45-60 minutes waiting out the rest of the storm. Once it had settled down, Bobby ran over to check out some tenters who had chosen to ride out the storm in their tents!?!?!?

This is the worst storm we've been through in our motorhome, and we hope to not have to ever go through this again. We spent much of our time in this storm praying and keeping each other close by. God did watch over us and the only damage we received to our coach was having all the unprotected radiator fins flattened on both air conditioners on the roof by the hail.

Bobby spent quite a few hours today straightening the fins by hand. In that time he managed to fix about 1/4 of them. He also helped another camper to remove their damaged awning from their trailer. It had been out during the night, and the storm took no time whipping it over the roof of their trailer. We thought we had lost our welcome mat (which we had secured under a rock), but Bobby found it in the next campsite this morning.

We give thanks to God for making it through this storm safely (as well as everyone else in the campground with us) and hope this isn't the usual weather for Wyoming, as we plan to be here thru the beginning of July.

If there's no storms to keep us up tonight and the weather's okay tomorrow, maybe we'll get to Devil's Tower.