Storm

Couple of weeks ago we had a horrendous thunder storm with strong winds, some hail, heavy rain, loud claps of thunder, and a gorgeous display of lightening, the park had water laying in every low spot and took a couple of days to dissipate. Besides knocking our internet dish off kilter, the park was without power for 4 hours, we were happy we had a generator and felt bad for all the folks in tents, it was the worst storm we have witnessed at the park. The campers in RV's that did not have generators at least had their 12 volt lights, water, etc. There is a hand pump that campers can use if they require water during power outages as our main water system requires power to run the pump as in all rural water system applications. No damage occurred at the park other than some trees falling in the bush and on the hiking trails and all campers were safe. During the next few days the weather was unsettled, with rain showers and because the dish is sensitive to the weather I did not think much of it when I was unable to download email at times, or while trying to access some websites they would time out before successfully loading, this is normal as our signal is not good here at the park, we are on the cusp of the satellite footprint. I decided after a few days that something was not right as I was experiencing these issues on clear days. I restarted the modem as this is always the first thing to try when issues arise with our setup, seemed to help some, but then the next day while trying to download email I watched the modem transmit lights, they were completely blanking out, not normal! Okay dish must be out of whack, we will have to retune. I was also wondering if the trees were causing grief as we had to mount our TV dish higher to get a decent signal earlier this summer due to tree interference. Woody had noticed also that he was having trouble downloading email, etc., and said he could raise the dish about 6 inches and retune it, well it took awhile before he had the time to accomplish the task, in fact we finally got it tuned properly today after trying a couple of days ago but got interrupted before we really had it tuned properly. Why is Woody so busy? Well you will see in another post! EH