Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Tunica MS to Benton, IL

Last night when I left the casino about 10pm, a guy was coming into the casino, he said “it’s coming, winds 50-70mph”

I had to walk about 200 yards to the rv, and by the time I got there it was starting to rain. I told Linda lets put the slides in as the winds are supposed to be very strong…..we did, and it was….within 5 minutes the rain was coming down in buckets…..blowing sideways….I kid you not. We stayed up and monitored the weather radio for about an hour and by than the worst was over and we went to bed.

This morning is was wonderful, bright sunny day and we had a tail wind after we got onto I-55….folk’s it don’t get much better than that. That lasted until about 11am, and than it got overcast. A great day for driving even if it was 275 miles.

From the time we left Hollywood casino we saw lots of flooding. I will show you a few of them, and the rest are at this link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/rufnitII/20110426TunicaNorth#

Tunica, north 003this is a cotton field near Tunica

Tunica, north 005flooding near Memphis, TNTunica, north 007

It was lots of water from Memphis into Southern Illinois. Here is the approach ramp from I-55 to I-57in Missouri

Tunica, north 009Tunica, north 011Off to the side this looks like a lake, but is a farm field!!!!

Tunica, north 015This is crossing the Mississippi river, it is flooded back to the levies on both sides of the river.Tunica, north 017

When we got to our campground which is another COE park in Benton, Il. there was wind damage everywhere. This is the tree right across from our campsite. This happened two nights ago.!!

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We are sorry for the picture quality, Linda was using the point and shoot and not the Nikon.

Only about 180 miles tomorrow to Rantoul, Il to stay at a city park for the night.  Than on to Garden Prairie on Thursday.

A boring day on the Interstates, and a lot of the road was pretty shitty. One bridge construction area in Illinois it was down to one lane with barricades on both sides and BIG potholes in the bridge surface….had to slow way way down.

Have a great day tomorrow, and we will see some of you on Thursday and the weekend.

Love to all of ya

Jim and Linda

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