View of the day-Al taking the detour at Pratt, KS…a crazy day for traffic.
It was farewell to Oklahoma today. We didn’t get up as early as yesterday, but we didn’t have to make the return trip…and we were going to have a brisk south wind pushing us for a change…woohoo!
We were making good progress with the wind, until we hit the detour at Pratt, then the traffic started to back up. We thought we would be back to smooth sailing on the other side of Pratt, until a convoy crew of harvesters with 6 units pulled in front of us…and they wouldn’t go any faster that 45mph, even though most of them were pulling campers. We passed some tire shrapnel on the side of the road and Marilyn informed Al that it wasn’t from her rig, just so he wouldn’t be concerned and he said, “at the speed those guys are going, they could drive into town on the flat”.
We puddled along until we got to St. John, then the wind switched around and was coming straight out of the east. Fortunately we only had 20 miles to go to Great Bend…but it was a looong 20. We parked the General when we got into town, then went over to the campground to get the camper set up…some steenkin’ harvesters had scabbed our spot. Leo, the landlord came over and got us parked by his shop with a couple of other harvesters, so we would at least be able to shower and sleep for the night. We have to take the camper to get repaired tomorrow anyway.
We grabbed a quick lunch, then Marilyn hooked up to the shop trailer and we went out to the bins to unload the combine and do some rad and air filter blowing. There were storm warnings for the area to the west of us and it had been looking like one of those weird, unsettled days that something could hatch…that and the east wind usually means something will show up sooner or later. We got our unloading and servicing done, then headed back to Great Bend to get cleaned up.
The weather is starting to edge closer to Great Bend and they did have a report of a tornado that touched down to the NE of the bins, but it was in a rural area so we will wait to hear the damage reports.
Hopefully none of those will be from us…
It was farewell to Oklahoma today. We didn’t get up as early as yesterday, but we didn’t have to make the return trip…and we were going to have a brisk south wind pushing us for a change…woohoo!
We were making good progress with the wind, until we hit the detour at Pratt, then the traffic started to back up. We thought we would be back to smooth sailing on the other side of Pratt, until a convoy crew of harvesters with 6 units pulled in front of us…and they wouldn’t go any faster that 45mph, even though most of them were pulling campers. We passed some tire shrapnel on the side of the road and Marilyn informed Al that it wasn’t from her rig, just so he wouldn’t be concerned and he said, “at the speed those guys are going, they could drive into town on the flat”.
We puddled along until we got to St. John, then the wind switched around and was coming straight out of the east. Fortunately we only had 20 miles to go to Great Bend…but it was a looong 20. We parked the General when we got into town, then went over to the campground to get the camper set up…some steenkin’ harvesters had scabbed our spot. Leo, the landlord came over and got us parked by his shop with a couple of other harvesters, so we would at least be able to shower and sleep for the night. We have to take the camper to get repaired tomorrow anyway.
We grabbed a quick lunch, then Marilyn hooked up to the shop trailer and we went out to the bins to unload the combine and do some rad and air filter blowing. There were storm warnings for the area to the west of us and it had been looking like one of those weird, unsettled days that something could hatch…that and the east wind usually means something will show up sooner or later. We got our unloading and servicing done, then headed back to Great Bend to get cleaned up.
The weather is starting to edge closer to Great Bend and they did have a report of a tornado that touched down to the NE of the bins, but it was in a rural area so we will wait to hear the damage reports.
Hopefully none of those will be from us…
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