I'm telling you guys, when
@SouthAlabama5er (Randy) and I get together strange things happen.
Last year I ordered some shrimp from him and on the day I had to go down to his place in Grand Bay, AL we got the biggest snow storm (by our standards) we've had in years. Driving through driving snow in MS to get shrimp. Coincidence...
Last years GSP dismeet in May we get a hurricane, a full month before hurricane season typically starts. Coincidence...well...
Last night...well, let me start 24 hours ago.
Randy, who drives over the road, and a friend of his are apparently helping FEMA move supplies to the East coast in anticipation for Hurricane Florence (my prayers are with everyone in the path of this thing. Having gone through Katrina, I have good idea of what they are in for, and possibly gonna be worse then Katrina). Anyway, they got this gig moving supplies from a town not far from me. Deal is, they gotta pull someone elses trailers, so they need to unhook from their own big rig trailers and leave them unattended for several days while making these runs. Now those trailers are expensive, and stolen quite frequently so they didn't want to just leave them anywhere.
I got 100 acres, plenty of space to turn a big rig around and unhook from a trailer, plus they get the added coverage of redneck security which basically means if someone was to approach the trailers with intent to steal they would hear banjos...
Anyway, I volunteer to help them out and give them a place to safely store their trailers. Now, we have not gotten hardly any rain here in the last 3 months, I mean the grass is turning brown due to lack of water. Ground is hard as a rock and dusty. More than capable of holding up big trucks. When I leave my house it is still just as dry. When I meet them at the interstate it is starting to rain...and continues to rain. Funny thing, as we get closer to my house it is raining more, lots more. In fact, it rained about 1.5" in about 45 minutes. More than in the previous 3 months.
Needless to say, it was a now a slick muddy mess. Oh, did I mention it was also 10:30 at night? Plenty dark as well, and still coming a monsoon. We slung mud, skidded around, got soaked, nearly stuck, moving again, stuck, then unstuck. It was great. Everyone was drenched. Even the neighbors who came out to see what all the lights were about. The best part was when Randy got his truck out first and had made it all the way to the end of the driveway (about 1/4 mile long) and his friend radioed to him he was stuck. Randy had gotten out and walked all the way down the driveway and just before he got to us we got his friend Eddie unstuck. Eddie, being a smart man, once he got moving he didn't stop, this included for poor Randy who was now running in front of him back down the driveway. It was great.
Anyway, everyone is now muddy, trucks (including my F-250) are very muddy, my tractor is muddy, and I think several trees have mud on their limbs up to 20' off the ground. However, we got them out and back on the road to help get supplies to our friends in the Carolinas.
Randy and Eddie, safe travels and thanks for the 3 months of rain that we got in an hour.
Good times!