“Then on July 22 at 4:15 a.m. we left on a 15-day
vacation. We went to South Dakota,
Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, and, of course,
Wisconsin. We saw Mt. Rushmore, the
Black Hills, Devil’s Tower, the Badlands, Wall Drug, Yellowstone, the Grand
Tetons, the Bighorn Mountains, and Jackson Hole. The sights were indescribable, pictures just
do not do them justice. We had a super great time. We were caught in a terrible, golf ball-sized
hail storm while driving in the Black Hills and have surface dents all over the
hood and trunk of the car. We also received five different stone chips in the
windshield of the car…We arrived home at 1:30 a.m. August 5 to find that our
sump pump was off because the power was out for nine hours on Tuesday from a
bad storm they received here and the water had run over in the sump pump well
and in the walls and the carpeting we have in the basement was saturated…But we
still would take the vacation all over again if we had the chance. “
So many memories: I remember
that storm – worst hail I ever personally experienced. I have a rock that I picked up just before
the storm hit. It is black with wavy
white lines and a white, twisting vein running through that. To me it resembles a lightning bolt in a
windy storm. I also remember my brother
and I seeing a small rattlesnake in the wild outside Graybull, WY, and running
terrified blindly down a hillside, while my father stuck around to see the
snake beat a hasty retreat.
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