Baby Christmas trees
Apparently this year has been a ridiculously record shattering year in terms of numbers of tornadoes in the US. So far, I have had tornado watches or warning on about 5 different occasions. Tonight was a little more interesting. I made the relatively short ride from Ashland to Fredericksburg in the early afternoon. It was a nice ride, I am surprised by the quality in general of Virginia’s roads. Best since Florida. I had planned to stay at the KOA, but after last night I figured I might want to take a day and let everything dry out. I called the motels in town and the Motel 6 was like 1 dollar more than the KOA so the decision was easy.
looked and had the texture of brains. Delicious, gooey, blueberry brains
I rolled into town at about 4 o’ clock and the sky was beginning to look a little precarious. At around 7, checked in and showered and getting settled, all hell broke loose. A tornado warning was issued lights started to flicker and a crazy downpour started followed by constant thunder and lightening. After maybe 30 minutes, the motel fire alarm went off and the employees were running around outside in the storm trying to figure out what the deal was. Something with the storm set off the false alarm, but within 15 minutes of that the power went out. And stayed out until 2am. After the storm subsided I went to talk to the hotel manager who spent the night outside smoking, turning away weary travelers because he couldn’t check them in. He heard that at least 4 tornadoes had touched down in the area, and power was out for the majority of the city.
Image taken from NOAA
I am very relieved that I decided on the motel over the KOA, and I hope the weather decides to settle down a little bit in the near future.
