Previous entry: "Thursday in Cresco!" | Next entry: "Rochester, MN" 06/06/2005 Entry: "July 25 on RAGBRAI! (copied from an elll jay somewhere)" Sheldon was pretty cool, up until midnight. Johnny and I had cooked dinner for almost everyone on the team for a very small expense and were really pleased with everyone's satisfaction. I went to bed very early, at seven or so, and the rest of the team went into the hubbub and put on a show. They came back and went to bed a few hours later, just before the first leg of the storm hit. I grew up in the area, just thirty miles north, and I've never seen anything like it. Fortunately, we were staying at Ryan Jennings' (brother of original RoadShow-er Paul Jennings)home, so we had a good shelter to go to, but the main campground must have been muddy, drunken chaos. Our tents were falling in on us and everything was blowing away, so we made a mad barefooted dash to the house. As I entered the garage, my foot slipped on the smooth and wet cement and went right out from under me. I landed hard on my elbow, which is now very nicely swollen. Nothing is broken, but apparently the fluid sack, along with the rest of the joint, was bruised. All that extra flesh is kind of fun to play with, but it hurts. This typing is kind of aggravating it, since I already typed an entry before this one. Nobody else on our team got hurt, though, which is very lucky. One of our riders had an ear infection to begin with, however, and the rain was really, really not good for it. So much stuff was lost or damaged. Our sleeping bag was sitting in two inches of water inside our tent when we found it this morning. Pookie had released the poles last night, so our tent wasn't broken in any way, but several tents had collapsed in on themselves with broken poles and torn rain flies. Flys? I dunno. (We hung everything up when we got here, Estherville, but as I look out the library window here, I realize that rain is pouring down again. Great.) Overall, we fared very well. Several support vehicles suffered broken windows, an RV tipped over, people lost very valuable things, and one twenty-seven year-old man was killed when a tree fell on his tent. This is very sobering. Replies: Leave us a note! (1) comments work now Posted by Seager @ 07/31/2005 11:36 AM CST

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