Weather (just about everything but lake effect)

1st the good news. We’re in a KOA just south of Charlotte. We had a drink outside after getting set up and the temperature outside was around 50.

So… Last night we listened to the rain all night and woke up to everything coated with ice. The trees were pretty but the branches hung lower with the weight and scraped the top of all the campers leaving. We left about 9:30. The weather reports were better and the roads looked just wet. We quickly drove out of the ice and the tractor trailers were no longer losing big ice sheets off the top.
It was a gray sky, too many clouds, so we really couldn’t see much. As we drove into the mountains we drove into the clouds and heavy rain. We could see bits of the mountains through the clouds as we drove out of the rain. We could see the line of clouds followed by blue sky as we followed 81 through Virginia. By the time we got to rt. 77 we were driving back into the rain but a highlight was we saw a double rainbow. The views were wonderful as you follow 77 through the southwest corner of Virginia but the winds were awful the rest of the way. When we registered here they said they were expecting a lot more people because of the winds.

Hopefully tomorrow we’ll get to Jekyll Island.