After that long night we were glad that all went well today. It is great to be back to just driving- with no schedules to meet. the truck stop was STILL without power when we woke up so we had to backtrack 10 miles to find some diesel and coffee. Once those fillups occurred we were all happy. Our only task today was to decide where to stop for showers. We had planned to shower at our overnight stop but with no power that didn't happen. Next we planned for two possible stops in PA. We decided to drive by the first one because we could see storm clouds ahead and wanted to out run them (we did). We drove by the next stop because as we neared the exit the charger dial in the truck took a sudden dip and Kurt didn't want to shut down until he figured out the problem (we turned off an auxillary power cord and all was well).
Our next possiblity was in Hubbard Ohio- and we were determined to stop ... after two days of traveling in east coast humidity. I took a picture of the welcome to Ohio sign and you can see another band of dark clouds to the west. We thought we were going to miss the thunderstorm- but instead it hit full force just as we left the freeway in Hubbard less than 10 miles later. For about 10 minutes we were in a total washout. Simultaneous flashes and cracks of lightening and sideways drenching rain. All the lights came on and a two inch deep river of water poured into the parking lot drains from all sides. We watched it all until it subsided and then went in for showers. When we came back out the storm had passed and the setting sun was trying to break through.
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