What a last few days

We are home now, but getting here was quite a chore. It all started Sunday when we hunkered down at the Cannon Beach RV Park.

After our Sunday jaunt we went back to the park to ride things out. Our generator worked fine so we were snug as a bug in a rug. I cooked Chile for dinner

The satellite kept coming and going making it sort of hard to watch TV. This happens in high winds. About that time all hell broke loose. 100 mph winds sound like freight trains coming thru. Then the motor home rocks. Snuffy weighs 28,000 pounds but it was still moving pretty good. Lots of trees went down but we were safe. Stuff bounced off the top all night long and into the next day.
Monday was a day of hiding. The winds blew all day and into the night. Sue slow cooked bacon for breakfast. Slow cooking means she took about an hour to do a pound. After breakfast she made cookies. Michell the lady that ran the park loved the home made cookies.

We finally got out Tuesday and went to Seaside to try and get a line of communications, as all the Cell phones were out as well as the power. The Cell tower had blown over. We found about 50 people on the pomade with phones in their ears. Sue got a hold of Jeff and I jot a hold of Tony. Stooped at Safeway for beer. They were on generators. Devastation was everywhere.

On the way back to the park we went thru Cannon Beach. There was this restaurant that said open. The place was named Cranky Sue's, so we just had to stop. We had a sandwich and clam chowder. The food was great as was everything about the place. We even got her Crankieness Sue in the picture. She did her best looking cranky.

Back at the RV park after lunch we meant some new friends. Rick and Sandy Scott. They are from Bend Oregon and now living in their RV for a project they are in charge of in Seaside. We had quite a visit. They were really nice people.



Now how to get home. I 5 being closed. They said there was a 3 hour wait for a flag car on the highway out of Astoria. Highway 26 closed. I said what the heck, so Wednesday morning we headed north. Went over the bridge at Astoria to Washington and headed up highway 101. We tried everything to find out what lay ahead, but nobody talked about 101, so we drove. Trees were down everywhere. The had been cut back to the shoulder so we could pass. Power lines and poles were laying along side the road. Every time we saw a car coming from the other direction we cheered. We got almost got to Montasano where we hit a snag. Guy on the road there said closed from flooding but we could go straight ahead into Aberdeen and get to 101 that way. It was open to Olympia. Yea we made it home about 3:00. The fluffed and buffed Snuffey that looked so nice in Palm Desert now looks like a wreck. He gets cleaned today.

Finally the end of the story. The blog all stated with Avo and Cado. Well Avo looks good but Codo is shakey.
House is fine and the tile floor is almost done. Now its home for the holidays and time off from the blog. I'll most likely start blogging again from Maui at the end of December. Merry Christmas all from Joe and Sue.