Waiting for storm in Saint Martinville, LA
Here’s another photograph of Nicole back in Mossy Oaks Campground:
Nicole at Mossy Oaks
We have traveled three days since then, passing through several states and landing in Saint Martinville, Louisiana. We stayed the last two night in Walmart parking lots between here and there, and in Gulfport we learned a couple good lessons…
- If the Walmart is on or near “Airport road”, you might be parking directly under low flying aircraft, which can sometimes cause the whole trailer to shake.
- Transport truckers really do sometimes leave their engines running all night long.
I’m quite curious about the *why* of point number 2. If you are reading this and know why a trucker would leave his engine idling all through the night please leave a comment and let me know.
It was foggy enough in the morning that we couldn’t actually see the Walmart whose parking lot we were in.
Trucks and trailer in foggy parking lot
Here in Louisiana it is 24 degrees and humid. We are expecting thunderstorms with “damaging winds and large hail stones”. I’m crossing my fingers that our rig is resilient in the face of same.
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Question: is Nicole so ‘little’ or is the oak that huge:)
I keep my fingers crossed for you to get through that storm with flying colors.
Thanks for the pics.
I am seeing a trucker in the next couple of days (husband of a friend) and will ask why they let the truck idle.
Good night!
Well, I am, as you well know, a *very* tiny person!
It turned out that the storm passed to the north of us, so we didn’t get any weather other than a bit of wind in the afternoon. Fine with me.
I can only speculate as to why a trucker would idle all night but looking at your photo, the motor you heard may have been not the truck but the Fruit and Vegetable trailer’s air conditioning unit. Possibly the truck engine supplies A/C power,
Alternatively, they may be paid by the hour and the reference is the engine’s clock
I enjoy the pics, good luck with the storm.
JP
It was definitely the truck engine not just a cooling unit, but I could easily believe that they must keep the truck running to keep frozen goods frozen.
I am amazed at the size of the ring of chairs around the bonfire spot. Must have been a large group! My son-in-law is a trucker and I think he or my daughter said that the semi’s are often left running for conservation of gas as it takes quite a bit of fuel to start the engines…course, I could be remembering what they told me wrong too…I get old wives tales mixed in with my thoughts. LOLOL