Biking, Adventureland, and BOHICA

The past week has brought a real mixed bag of things -- there was some decent weather (but the heat from that just caused more thunderstorms), we were able to spend some time at Adventureland as tourists on Thursday, we evacuated to the local casino Thursday night in the face of more severe thunderstorms, and now this weekend with record setting rain.  BOHICA . . . . .
To clarify -- that's the acronym for Bend Over, Here It Comes Again -- and it unfortunately is a one-word description for the Iowa weather which has impacted our stay here so far. 
Just over the past several days, we had the "perfect storm" weather across the upper Midwest Thursday night, which had us evacuating to the local casino for protection for several hours (fortunately it didn't develop into as fierce a storm as projected, but it still was unnerving).  That night and Friday, Des Moines blew their one-day rainfall record for that date clear out of the water (pun intended!) with rainfall of 4.13 inches.  Saturday was a one day respite, but early Sunday morning the skies opened up again, and I'm sure that records will be set for today.
A few pictures of our fun - although our picture taking has been limited since we don't want to drown our cameras!

Thursday night's evacuation using the casino as a storm shelter  -  since an RV park is a perfect tornado magnet.  We kept track of the storm progress with Bruce's Iphone (look at all the red weather).


Today's (Sunday) view our our front window to our own lake -- and its still coming down.


But we've beat the weather to death, so now some views of some of the fun that we've been able to insert between the rain, thunder and tornados --
Biking . . . . . and carbo-loading --

 

Exploring Adventureland as tourists -- some pictures of the rides and the campground earlier this week to give our readers a better idea of where we're working.  Roll your cursor over each picture for a short description, and click to enlarge . . . . .




We're heading to work today for a 6 hour shift (3 to 9 PM) just about when the next string of thunder showers are projected to start.  Greg's ride (the Outlaw roller-coaster) is under cover, but Mandy's work at the Raging River water ride has her out in the open.   The temperatures are supposed to be in the 70s, so it won't be too uncomfortable, but we've got a lot of Iowans here drowning themselves so we've got to do our Carnie bit.