On Wednesday, 9/4/2019, we decided to evacuate from Lake City, SC during hurricane Dorian. If we were wondering if we should, I was partially convinced while driving home when I spotted the wagon trains of Lineman repair trucks that were heading into town.
Originally thought we’d head over to Chattanooga, TN, so that we were on the other side of the mountain range. We decided that we really didn’t need to go that far.
As always, I was calm and collected about the storm coming. My lovely bride, and campground manager, Dee was a little nervous.
But don’t worry, I got her calmed down after a while. 🙂
We wound up finding the last open spot at Fort Mill KOA and took it. Turns out it was a back in at the end of the line and had a pretty good drop off at the front. We had the front jacks almost maxed out and were still a few degrees down in front.
We arrived at the park after dark and left around 11 A.M. the next morning, so we can’t comment much on the park itself. While it did seem organized and clean. We ran into an issue as we were leaving, as there was a huge rut on the side of the very thin pavement into which our Momentum decided to fall.
Since there’s no reference in the photo to show how wide this part of the road is, below is a picture of the Momentum about 10 feet past the rut.
We left here and headed over to the Camping World Racing Resort at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. They were open for business for anyone evacuating from the storm.
When we arrived, we were setting up when the chef at a food truck came over and told us that we could come over and eat for free! Then he said, “Oh no, you guys look busy, I’ll bring food over.” He did, bringing us some BBQ chicken, macaroni salad and cole slaw with some cookies for desert!
We saw that hurricane Dorian had passed the carolinas and things looked safe on Friday morning, 9/6/2019, however, I had to work, so we stayed all day and left about 6:30 P.M., heading back to Lake City.