So, we dodged a bullet yesterday. Some very nasty thunderstorms started moving into the Montgomery area about 1:30 PM but nothing near as bad as the folks south of us were getting. Our emergency weather radio’s alert feature was sounding the alarm every ten minutes of so for several hours but the warnings were all for storms about a 100 miles south of us. The forecast is for more bad weather on tomorrow night and on Wednesday as well, some of possibly severe.
March 28, 2016
On Friday we went over to the Gunter Annex to tour the Enlisted Heritage Hall. They have a nice collection of memorabilia telling the story of enlisted airmen over the years. Although there is a lot of construction going on, we were really impressed. Especially impressive was the Order of the Sword and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force displays.
March 29, 2016
Yesterday we drove over to Tuskegee, AL to visit the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. The museum is located on Moton Field where most of the pilot and ground crew training took place beginning in July 1941.
March 30, 2016
As most of y’all know, we use a Verizon Jet Pack for our internet connection. We have a 30 gigabyte limit on our data usage and for the past few years this has been more than enough. If we are in a RV park that has WiFi we try to use that as much as we can in order to help keep our usage down.
Yesterday we got a notice that we have used 75% of that 30 gig limit already this billing cycle which began on 19 March. In all the years we have been using Verizon we have never used this much data in just eleven days. Yes, we do bump up against our limit sometimes but it is always just a few days before our monthly cycle is over on the 18th.
While we have been here at Maxwell AFB we have been connecting to the park’s WiFi as much as possible. It is sometimes very slow and in some cases we can’t even get connected so it is pretty much unusable most of the time.
I have been looking into renting one of the “grandfathered” plans that you can get on Ebay and other places. More on that later after I do more research.
March 31, 2016
Well, the month of March is going out with a bang here in the Montgomery area. This morning we were under a High Treat Warning for a 50% chance of severe thunderstorms and now that has been extended until 3 AM in the morning. We did get quite a bit of rain earlier in the day but no thunder bumpers but now a new line of storms are firing up over in Louisiana and Mississippi that might affect us.
Here on Maxwell AFB the evacuation plan has us go over to the Supply building and from there into billeting rooms if we don’t have any pets. Those with pets will have to stay in that building and will be provided cots and sleeping bags. Joyce and I have packed a bag and will prepare the rig to get the slides pulled in quickly in the event we have to get out of here. I also have a weather radio that I will leave in alert mode when we go to bed.
Have I told you that I hate dealing with this kind of weather and for that reason I don’t think I could ever live in the south again. Don’t get me wrong, I love the south in a lot of ways but the weather is a deal breaker for us buying a home down here.
More later.
Barry & Joyce
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