The raining has stopped for us, but it's raining all around the area and all that water has to go through International Falls on its way to Hudson Bay. Today the water is about a foot higher than shown in the above photo of the maintenance dock area. All the fixed piers in Voyageurs Natl Park are under water. Numerous campsites are closed, too. No boat tours are offloading at Little American Island due to the flooded dock area. Other than that, most boat tours are operating. However, there's little ramp area at the boat launch here at Rainy Lake Visitor Center. You basically launch in the parking lot! According to one older gentleman I talked to, this is the worst flooding since 1950. It seems when this happens, people do two things: fish & sand bag.
In other news, we're fine though Donna's been under the weather a little bit today. She may have pulled a muscle and then there's a sensitive stomach to deal with. We had an exciting day, yesterday, when we realized by mid-afternoon that the exhaust fans on the frig weren't working. When these things stop, a frig installed in an RV slide out can't hold a set temperature very well and ours wasn't. The Tanners volunteered to take our frozen food. We got a 50 qt cooler and 15 lbs of ice to hold the non-frozen food. We've done this before in other trailers, and it took a little bit to remember just how we did things when the RV frig didn't work. Once the sun started setting, the frig temp came back down below 40*. So we know it's working, but just can't hold the temperature. Anyway, I think Donna pulled a muscle in there somewhere, and she's feeling it today.
The RV tech plans to be here tomorrow. He's coming to install a new air conditioner on our neighbors trailer. After that he'll check our frig out. The plan - depending on what he finds - is to jump the fans past the thermostat and let the fans run continuously (assuming it is a thermostat problem & the fans are OK) until we can get the correct parts in and get it back to normal. Kinda angry at myself as I'd thought many a times to go ahead and buy these parts as spares and carry them with us for just this occasion. I didn't as I was told the parts are common and easily obtained. Well...not in International Falls.
Anyway, we're on our normal work schedule for this season. We work the visitor center Friday through Monday. Seems to be a good schedule for us. Now that we're settled in, we'll start getting out. I think a trip to Ely is planned (knit shop there), and Donna wants to spend a night or two at Grand Marais on the north shore of Lake Superior. We're told the Angry Trout is the place to eat there. And get a doughnut from some shop there that I can't recall. That's the current planning, anyway. Oh, and we went to see "How to Train Your Dragon 2" on Tuesday. If you handle 3D, see it in 3D.
So that's our week. Hope yours was good. Later, David
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