POTA SYP Weekend

This weekend is POTA's "Support Your Parks" weekend. Wrong weekend for me, as we're back home and I'm slowly preparing myself to get back to the grind tomorrow. The older I get, the harder the transition of getting back to the normal routine is.

In any case, even if I wasn't going back to work tomorrow, this weekend would not have been a good POTA weekend as the weather has been less than deluxe since we got home. After we unpacked the car yesterday, I travelled to 25 or so miles south of here to my sister's place to pick up Harold (our Beagle), as she was watching him for the week. As we traveled back to South Plainfield, Harold and I hit some pretty nasty rain on the highway. I kept pressing on with my windshield wipers on at full blast at times. Other drivers, not as confident in their ability to proceed had either pulled over to the side of the highway, or were driving with their hazard blinkers on.

The big Sussex County Amateur Radio Club Hamfest was to be held at the Sussex County Fairgrounds this morning. I was debating whether or not to go. I really didn't feel like driving all the way up to the NorthWest corner of New Jersey after all the driving I did yesterday. What sealed the deal for me, though, was when my phone blasted off at 4:30 this morning that our neighboring county, Somerset County, was under a tornado watch until 5:15 this morning. Basically, I can throw a rock out my window and hit Somerset County. I don't think a tornado would have had second thoughts about wandering into Middlesex County just because the National Weather Service didn't give it permission.

So I stayed home. And from some pictures I saw on Facebook, a lot of people made the same decision that I did. Let's just say the photos didn't indicate that there were mobs and crowds of vendors or attendees. My weather station has reported that we have received 1.40" of rain since yesterday afternoon with more to come. It's supposed to clear up and be hot and sunny for tomorrow, a prototypical Summer day. 

Of course it will. I'll be at work.

72 de Larry W2LJ

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