What a South Dakota welcome from Jim and Pam!!!  I already wrote about the first day arriving in the afternoon and promptly going out on the boat for a great afternoon of fishing. Well, the next day we did more fishing, not as successful as the day before but still caught fish and had fun.  Both nights we ate the fish we caught, first night walleye and the next night that nice salmon I caught the day before.  Both fish were fantastic eating.

Now the adventure begins. We left Pierre late morning on Friday. Noticed a storm brewing from the west and managed to beat it to their lake house in Arlington.  But just barely. Within fifteen minutes of arrival, having barely parked the RV, we had to rush to Jim's tornado shelter.  An 8 by 4 foot metal shelter above ground behind their house.  Yes, tornados had been spotted in the area and moving towards us, multiple sitings and touchdowns!  Crazy but also exciting.  Was tough for me to get into the shelter with four other people, a neighbor stopped in.  While we all had some drinks to fortify us, I was a bit claustrophobic in that shelter.  We were in there for close to an hour before we felt safe to come out.  The damage to Jim's place was just some tree limbs on his beach and in his yard.  No dock damage and no damage to our RV.  Besides the tornados, they were forecasting large orange sized hail.  I was more worried what the hail could do to the RV then the tornado itself!  We escaped with no damage.  However, damage all around this lake community with one death and two serious injuries.  The death came from someone in a mobile home.  The two houses next door were ok, some damage but not much.  We have pics, but I have to wait until I can get an Internet connection on my pc to upload them.  Hope to do that later tonight when we stop at an RV place for the night on our way to Senecaville.

There's more weather stories.  The next night, last night, we had severe thunderstorms roll through the area again.  Major wind, rain, four inches of it and lite hail.  Linda and I stayed in the RV and it was a bit scary.  It seemed to go on hours, most likely three.  Again, the RV made it through with no
damage.  We have been very lucky and now it is time to get out of town!, lol.

Jim and Pam sure know how to entertain their guests here in South Dakota, big time.  Thanks guys, enjoyed the visit and look forward to doing it again some time, maybe without the weather issues!