Grand Rivers, KY – September 16, 2008

We went to Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart yesterday afternoon and re-provisioned. We don’t know when we will have another opportunity to find these stores, so we really stocked up. We had dinner at Olive Garden.

While driving in Paducah we saw some of the problems caused there by the heavy winds of yesterday. There were many downed trees, also a lot of debris in yards and some downed signs.

It was 10 o’clock before we got back and the electricity was still out. Fortunately there was a full moon that gave some light. Shortly after we got everything unloaded from the car and into the boat the electricity came back on.

Beth rode her bike into town to mail the paperwork for our absentee ballots. The town still has no electricity and we heard that the IGA grocery store there lost much of their frozen/cold foods. They had a generator, but it wasn’t big enough to handle all of their stock.