camping in Southern Indiana

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Toby and I went camping with Jeff and Laura last weekend near Evansville, In. We met another couple there that lives in Chicago. In fact, it was their family reunion but they invite us along. We had a great time and all was fairly uneventful until Saturday night. There was a large white ring around the moon. We all wondered about it but didn't think much of it. Then I woke up Sunday morning to raindrops on my face. So, Toby and I got up and put the rain flap over the tent. We slept a little bit more. I woke up and took a shower and came back to Laura peeking her head out of the tent. She was worried b/c it was very windy. So, I called the parents and had my dad look up the radar and he said it would start raining heavily within an hour. So, we started packing up the gear and got everything into the car about a minute after it started raining. Our friends from Chicago were getting ready to leave but they had rented a cabin. So, being the nice friends that they are, they let us hang out in their cabin after they were gone. Soon after, the power went out. We waited til early afternoon before we decided it would be safe enough to make the 10 mile drive to town. Oh yeah...the guys rode their motorcycles so there was no way they could have driven earlier with the wind and rain and there was no way they could fit in the car with our gear and two dogs. It looked like a tornado had ripped through the area. It was very scary to think that we were in tents during most of that. We got to Dairy Queen (one of the few restaurants that had power) and ate real food finally. We had been eating snack foods all day since the power was out and it was too windy to use the camping stove. After that we went to two hotels (the only two in town) before we found one with power (their satellite was out so no tv but it was better than no power at all). The guys stayed overnight there and us girls and the dogs drove home that night in the car. Turns out that it was storms from the hurricane that came through and their were wind gusts up to 66mph. Everyone made it home safe but wow...what an adventure!!