Ouch!

 

Hey, it's great to be back in the Carrollton park on our small patch of gravel. You'll wonder at the above expression for a couple of seconds, but stay with me. Below is an example of the best Prevost coach, less than 100 miles on it, and in the 2 million plus category ... no, not the brown one to the left with the little HHR, eh.

 

 

OK, here is the ouch part. We are sitting in the "observation deck" of the Flying Scotsman, having our coffee in the morning and we see the really neat bus next to us start to move. In the above pic notice the power pole on the right.

He's a single older man pulling a pickup truck and really cuts the corner by the pole. I'm out of our bus in a second yelling and whistling at him but he doesn't stop until his truck is so entangled in the power apparatus that his 500 horses can't go further.

This power substation is the entire source for over 150 units and below the electrician is cutting the power to the park. I helped the bus owner release his pickup from his bus but, while still drivable, there is extensive damage to the truck and RV.

The fire and police arrive and finally declare that both vehicles are safe to extract.

The repair folks began to cut the damaged panels from the bus and the electrician cut the panels off the power poles. And finally got both the bus and truck off to repair facilities.

We were supposed to leave the park Saturday morning and begin our northward adventure .... however. With the power going to be off for the next 24 hours at least (in spite of Jo-Anne's help below, yet with 90 degrees and full sun) we decided to get the heck outta Carrollton.

And therefore we have landed back at our favorite spot in Grapevine for at least Friday and Saturday. With the weather forecast on Sunday of a mix of tornadoes, hail, high winds, and other nasty Texas stuff from here east we might delay our departure for a day or so to be safe.