Back to CO

As Jon & I were driving back to Julesburg, CO on Monday afternoon we basically drove into this storm in the middle of SD. We had been on I-90, then cut down to 44 I believe so we could get to 83 that goes through Nebraska. Anyway, after we were through Winner, SD we could see that most of the horizon in front of us was well, very dark for 7:00 in the evening. We turned on the weather station on our CB: severe thunderstorm warning, wind gusts at 70mph, and baseball size hail was going on a county to the NW of us. Well we were heading West and South, the storm was moving SE, so we were on the edge of this storm for a long time. We had wind and rain, but only heard 2 small hail hit the truck thankfully. Jon was driving hard to get out of its path. I am more aware now that out-running a big storm out here is not as easy as one would think. Partly because there just aren't as many roads as we are used to back home! There was pretty much nothing out in that area, ranches and pasture, puny 1-horse towns. We made it just fine though and got to the camper a little after midnight.




We are all done combining in this area now. The fields ranged from 23-48 bushels per acre here that we did. Nice fields and farmers. Combines and trucks are all washed off and everything is loaded up. Jon was out most of the day looking for wheat to cut. I am not familiar with this town yet as I left before we started combining here. So I spent the day finding (and doing business at) the Napa, laundromat, car wash, post office, ATM, and grocery store. Ya know how MN is good about posting the population on the town signs? Well OK, KS, & CO don't seem to do that as much. CO will more likely have the elevation on the sign. So I can't say for sure how big or small the town is, I would say maybe Waterville size. It's a nice little town. Apparantly it was a stop along the Pony Express. Not sure if we'll be moving tomorrow or not for a few days.