Stuck Again!

We're in Fairhope, AL near Mobile on Mobile Bay, ready to go up the rivers, but torrential rainstorms across Alabama and Mississippi have the rivers in flood. There is a good NOAA website, that has actual and forecast river levels, which shows the rivers in flood well into next week, so we may be stuck here another 7 days. We're thinking about driving home for a few days if the predictions are for more than 5 or 6 days.

We drove up to see the Mobile River and the Tombigbee river and they were flooding over their banks in places and had loads of debris and whole trees floating downstream. This boat ramp on the Tombigbee is usually about 40 ft. longer to get to the water, since the water levels are up about 20 ft. here. With the increased current, which we'd be fighting upstream and all of the the logs and debris, we're not going to go. Also, most of the bridges are 52 ft. tall and with 29 ft of increased water levels in some places, we might not be able to get under the bridges.

Since Fairhope, AL is on the Eastern shore of Mobile Bay, there are nice sunsets here. Also, Fairhope is a cute, knicky-Knacky town to go visit. Hopefully, the rivers will drop faster than predicted and we'll be out of here next week. We may go across the bay to Dog River Marina instead since there's no cell phone reception here, no TV hookup, can't use our sattelite dish TV and almost no internet (I'm using the wireless from a marina across the creek from ours). We'll just have to wait and see. The only good thing about this marina is that we're in a covered slip so the boat is in shade all day and I'm refinishing our teak handrials while we're here. You can't varnish teak in the sun, when it's windy, when it's raining, or in the morning and evening dew, so it's hard to find a good time to do it.

We were supposed to be home about April 7th from this trip, but with Kathy's Dallas problems, waiting for waves and waiting for floods, it looks like we'll be home after the middle of May.