{"id":2130,"date":"2017-08-06T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2017-08-08T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:27:35","slug":"gaylord-michigan-a-tornado-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2017\/08\/06\/gaylord-michigan-a-tornado-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaylord Michigan & a Tornado warning."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We headed out of Paradise Point Tuesday late in the morning and headed toward the Mackinac Bridge. \u00a0It’s a really long bridge with a lot of construction going on that day.\u00a0\u00a0 I just looked it up and it’s twice as long as the \"\"<\/a>Verrazano. \u00a0 Weird thing is the speed limit for loaded trucks is 15 MPH. \u00a0 Could you imagine trucks crossing the Golden Gate, Verrazano or GW bridges at 15 MPH and it not being rush hour?!<\/p>\n

We scheduled 5 days for Gaylord in a KOA just south of town.\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty nice place as KOA’s go.\u00a0\u00a0 The real reason for staying here was to get the fridge sensor fixed.\u00a0\u00a0 We had an appointment on Wednesday @ 9 am for the diagnostic.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course it was pouring rain Wednesday morning and I made my way to the RV dealer just north of town.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They took down all the necessary info from the coach and called Norcold to ask that they ship a new sensor.\u00a0\u00a0 Norcold asked them to try using a magnet on the sensor,\u00a0 which I already had done.\u00a0 But they explained that if the sensor had gotten wet, then I would have needed to wait a couple days to try it.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t know that at the time.\u00a0 But when the tech tried it, (it had been almost 2 weeks) \u00a0it reset.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was done and I could leave.\u00a0\u00a0 OMG.<\/p>\n

Thursday we decided to scrub the coach and use the new central Vac I had installed for a thorough vacuuming.\u00a0 Wow does that new unit have a lot of suction!! \u00a0 Kathy might have been right that she thought it might suck the tiles off the floor.\u00a0\u00a0 The best thing about a central vac is the air (and dust) does not blow back into the house like a regular vacuum does.\u00a0\u00a0 We cleaned everything well.<\/p>\n

Wednesday evening right around 6 pm the Emergency broadcast System \"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Alert went off about a Tornado a bit southwest of us.\u00a0\u00a0 Great…\u00a0 More weather,\u00a0 I immediately got out the laptop to look at the Doppler for our area.\u00a0 Wow,\u00a0 lots of red areas around us.\u00a0 I went outside and put the chairs, tables and grill back in the belly of the coach and mentioned what I heard to a few of our neighbors.\u00a0\u00a0 Thankfully the tornado touched down about 30 miles from us and was an EF0 and did almost no damage.\u00a0\u00a0 But the rains came like a banshee and went on for hours, only slacking off a bit around midnight.\u00a0\u00a0 Our campground looked like a lake that night .\u00a0 But Thursday morning it had all drained away.\u00a0 Must be all sand around here.<\/p>\n

Friday was a down day,\u00a0 we did some grocery shopping and basically was lazy \"\"<\/a>all day.\u00a0\u00a0 Hey,\u00a0 I really am retired.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday I affixed the I-Pass\/EZ-Pass Toll Transponder to the windshield.\u00a0\u00a0 I attempted to charge it up for all the tolls I will be hitting in Ohio and NY in the next few days as we head toward Niagra Falls.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out I had to add a new credit card number to the account as the one I used to initially order the device and put the minimum amount in the account would not work for reloading the account.\u00a0 I guess they must use different merchant accounts for initialization and refills.\u00a0\u00a0 I use VAN’s for most autopay stuff,\u00a0 (Virtual Account Numbers) thru my Citi cards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes they can be a bit tricky in situations where the might use different merchant numbers each time.\u00a0 I know Amazon does,\u00a0 so I cannot use a VAN there,\u00a0 I tried.<\/p>\n

I also spent some time trying to get tickets for some of the TV Shows in NYC.\u00a0 The Late Show,\u00a0 SNL and especially for Kathy The Chew and Dr Oz.\u00a0\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if any come thru while we are still in the area.<\/p>\n

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We headed out of Paradise Point Tuesday late in the morning and headed toward the Mackinac Bridge. \u00a0It’s a really long bridge with a lot of construction going on that day.\u00a0\u00a0 I just looked it up and it’s twice as long as the Verrazano. \u00a0 Weird thing is the speed limit for loaded trucks is … <\/p>\n

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