Day 19
Texas to Colorado
It was still
pretty warm when we got up a 6:30 this morning. We were only a few miles from
the Oklahoma boarder. We decided to take Hwy 177 which paralleled I-35, we did
this so we wouldn’t have to go through Oklahoma City. We made the right choice.
Oklahoma country side is beautiful and we see saw some really neat old towns.
Then we crossed over into Kansas and everything went to hell. First off, it was
soooo hot, 109, it felt like we were in hell. Second Kansas is miles and miles
on nothing special. Third we drove into
a MASSIVE storm. The radio was giving storm updates saying flash floods and
ping pong size hail. We could see LOTS of lightning and really black clouds.
Then the radio said between Colby and Goodland, which was where we were headed,
there was flash flooding and 60 mile hour winds. We decided to pull off in
Colby have dinner and wait out the storm. We waited about an hour and it looked
like the direction we were headed was clear of dark clouds and lightning. The
storm was still raging beside us as we drove. I had never seen lightning that
was nonstop flashing with no thunder. We thought we were doing good driving toward
bright nonthreating clouds. Then….. our road turned and we drove straight into
the storm! There were lightning bolts striking all around us, rain coming down
so hard our wipers could hardly keep up, and wind blowing so hard cars were
pulling off the road everywhere. We even saw a big construction sign that have
the lit arrow flipped upside down. When it got really bad we pulled over near
an overpass for a few minutes. Then we
continued on, once we drove out of the storm, we decided we had enough of
Kansas. We drove until we came to the first truck stop in Burlington,
Colorado. I have no desire to ever go
back to Kansas! Next stop Rock Springs, Wy.
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