Hurricane Irene Approaching

We heard from the folks at Grey's Point, VA., last night and they are all evacuating today to avoid Hurricane Irene due to hit the area on Saturday. They spent the whole day yesterday making preparations, as best they could, by removing flags, banners and tying down everything they could before preparing to leave. They will stay at the Charlottesville (VA) KOA campground until Monday. That is located northwest of Richmond and will hopefully keep them a safe distance from the shores of Chesapeake Bay which is expected to take a direct hit. We are so grateful that we left there when we did. The folks at Grey's Point are hoping that the Labor Day weekend is not impacted too much as they are totally booked for that weekend. We would expect that there will be serious damage to the park - and also Bethpage, the sister park - as there are many park models and manufactured homes that are permanently located there and always affected by these storms. We will get a report from them on Monday, the planned return to the park.

The refrigerator leak is still a stubborn problem. The Mobile Tech put in a new line yesterday AM and we all thought it was fixed. After he left, I went to replace the outside cover on the refrigerator compartment and discovered that there was still water leaking from the fitting where the new line was attached. I called the Tech back and he came to replace the fitting with another one. Once again, we thought it was fixed. Josie went to do laundry and I did some work on the computer and then took a little nap for about 45 minutes. When I awoke, there was a flood in the kitchen. I turned off the water and ran outside to discover that the new line, a plastic tube that is 1/4" in diameter, separated from the fitting and water was running into the rig from the rear underside of the refrigerator. I once again phoned the Tech and he was unable to return yesterday to fix the problem. He will return this AM, while we are at work, so we need to leave the rig unlocked and trust him to fix the problem and close everything up again before leaving.

It promises to be an interesting 4 days this weekend while we are working, so hang on...