We Stay Put for One More Day...

We woke up this fine Saturday morning, a little later than usual, to the beginnings of pitter patter of raindrops on the roof. Before too long, the thunderstorm was fully underway and not long after that, we had another lake surrounding the rear end of the trailer. It's a little disconcerting to see the electrical hookup just inches from touching the water. We decided we would go ahead and hook up so we could pull forward and get our jacks out of the standing water.

Heidi was getting pretty anxious about eating her breakfast. I had put her off hoping the rain would ease up, but it didn't. I put on my raincoat over my pajama shorts and tee and my flip flops and went out to fill her bowl. I thought I'd get the griddle out of the pass through so we could have our Saturday pancakes too.

I took Heidi for her morning "constitutional" and came back soaked so decided I would go ahead and wade into the water and raise up the jacks. Brock and I got the trailer completely hooked up to the Yukon and then brought the rooms in and unhooked the power so we could pull forward. We kept watching the skies and trying to decide whether to move to Memphis or stay here one more night. Brock's phone kept beeping pretty regularly with warnings about the flood warning being extended. We decided to have cereal since we couldn't turn the air conditioner on with the power unplugged and turning all the burners on to make pancakes makes it very hot when the temperatures are already in the high seventies.

Here's our little duck visitors swimming in the creek behind our house. I took this picture in the afternoon when the waters had pretty much receded. This morning, the water was up to the left edge of the asphalt and a lot further up at the back of the trailer.

We finally decided to just stay here, but both felt a little sad and discouraged like it was a wasted day. And a Saturday too, one of our full days to see stuff. Bummer. It rained pretty hard and there was pretty constant thunder rumbling most of the day with a few huge booms thrown in.

Tonight, by around 7:30 it had pretty well stopped and the sky started to lighten. It was strange because as the little boys were going to bed, they were both asking what was going on and feeling a little nervous because the sky looked strange; it was all yellow. It was the sun actually becoming visible right as it was going down and reflecting off the remaining clouds. It made everything appear like it had a yellow glow. Nice to see the sun, even if it is just going down.

We have spent a good portion of today trying to plan out our next steps and kind of feeling frustrated. We're not sure what to do in Tennessee. I think we're headed to Memphis tomorrow, but don't think we want to spend the money to tour Graceland. We thought we wanted to see Nashville, but the timing when we would be there is the weekend of the Country Music Festival and it's going to be very busy there. Even if we wanted to try to see any of the country acts that will be performing, we can't, because it is sold out. We're not sure what to see in the Great Smoky Mountains. Sometimes plans fall into place and sometimes they seem difficult.

Tomorrow's forecast is for sun. Hooray! It is very quiet outside tonight and I'm looking forward to some good sleep.

***Brock got a couple of pictures on his phone when the water was a little higher, so I thought I'd add them here.

There's a lot of little debris floating on top of the water, but it is a couple inches deep there
inside the boundary for our "walkway".

View from our trailer door...yuck. Almost all the water has drained away now.