Rain and Traffic and Traffic and Rain

It started raining last night about 10 just as we were going to bed.  I love to hear the sound of rain hitting the top of the motorhome so it was a nice night to sleep.  It rained all night.  We both woke up at 5:00 and knew that this would be a wet set-up.  We put on our cheap ponchos and began quietly to pack up.  Quiet time would not be over until 6 but we did what we could.  It was semi-dark when we pulled out of the campground at 7:15.  It was still raining.

As we traveled east on I-40, it began to rain harder and harder.  When we hit Knoxville, not only did it begin to rain harder but the traffic became heavy.  It was stressful to drive through an unfamiliar city in heavy traffic and rain.  I guess this rain was the result of Hurricane Delta that hit Louisiana.  

 

Of course to complicate things, for almost five miles traffic became a crawl.  At the end of that delay, we could not see any reason for the slow down of traffic.  It seems that it is always that way.

Through it all, Sandy was able to sleep.

Early afternoon the rain finally let up and we could see that the trees had begun to turn colors.  

We crossed back into Central Time Zone and gained an hour.  We got into the KOA at 2:30.  Of course, it was raining, so we sat in the motorhome and waited for it to let up   I was only able to reserve a site with 30amps but it is cool enough that we won't need to run the air conditioners.  They offered us a 50 amp back-in site but that meant we would have to unhook the dolly and unload the car.  That didn't sound too appealing to us.  Had we done that, we would have to rehook and reload tomorrow morning before we could leave.   We hope the rain is turned off soon.  Central Illinois desperately need the rain but Hunter text me to say that he was mowing our lawn today.  That means it is still dry at home.