[DM]

OK, would someone please remove the dark cloud that has been hovering over my HAID???? I was so excited yest, as it was our 1st time out camping this season and our friends from WI came down.

DH and I no sooner backed the RV in and it got dark and downpoured. I came home and when I went back after the storm, there on my cement pad was a 3 ft long snake. (water snake of some sort) I freaked!!

DH was helping DS at his business, so some poor man came by on a bike and I asked him to "chase" the snake away. He picked it up, it bit him and wouldn't let go. His hand started to bleed like crazy. I about passed out as this poor man was standing there w/what I felt was a python attached to his hand B/C of ME!!!!

Finally, he takes the snake to the river. Now, this campground is right on the Mississippi, which has been rising. OK, the sun comes out, we sit down outside, umbrella drinks in hand, chips in the bowl
THEN the fire dept comes through w/their sirens telling us to go to the main shelter house, which is brick. Tornado warnings and one was spotted.

Dang! We hang out there a while, just reposition the lil umbrellas' in my watered down toddy and the Park Ranger comes by and says that by noon Sat *today* the park will be closed and flooded. WHAT???

We go out for pizza, as the wind is just wicked, so no grilling out. We come back and the river is out of its' banks and literally splashing across the road.

Well, the umbrella drink got tossed, the RV hooked up and DM, DH and DS headed for home. So, on my first night of camping, I was in my jammies, in my own bed at home and still thirsty. Darn it, those lil umbrella's were a waste of money!!

We drove down and checked the park out today and the river is over the road bringing really awful muck w/it, right where we were parked.

After the Winter we had, Mother Nature is still messing w/me!!!