We hadn’t seen much in rain since leaving Mountain Home, AR way back in Nov of 2o10. We had light showers during the winter while in Quartzsite. Since Being at Zion, we did have lots of sunshine and a day or two of winds. But as our last two days draw near, we were threaten with heavy rain and possible thunderstorms. The rain was tracking all the way in the direction we were heading.
Since we had no choice but to be out on our 14th day and not sure what weather conditions we could get in, we opted to boogie out as soon as the rain let up on our 13th day (Monday). We weren’t planning on going very far, only into Cedar City Utah; where we would spend the night fueling up on groceries, and fuel for both the motor home and the car. The drive was only about 60 miles, so we really thought we could be it here before the next round of rain-WRONG!
Just about half way there, we could see the heavy rain heading right at us. We kept on truckin forwards, but slowly, even got some folks a little upset with us because I refuse to put the medal to the floor. They honked and flipped us off as they passed us on by.
Now, by me going slow with the heavy rain, about 5 miles just outside of Cedar City, became a stretch of Black Ice. On the Southbound of I-15 there were at least 5 vehicles that had spin out of control and was in the ditch-one appearing to have been very serious; while on our side, Northbound there were already 3 cars in the ditch that apparently spun out-including one of the vehicles that rushed by us earlier.
As we arrived safely here at the Wal-Mart we are thankful for our safety and my cautious driving. We will park it here for a night or two until this front moves on. But as we are sitting here, socked in completely with cloud and rain; the rain soon gave way to heavy snow showers. Many cars already here in the parking lot have snow/slush accumulating on their vehicles! As the clouds come and go we shortly see that the mountainous surrounding have snow on the peaks! I take Leah out to go potty, and snow tries to accumulate even on the grassy area!
Brian and I have to sit back and think, that last time we actually seen that much snow (which literally isn’t much to some), had to been over 10 years!
We find this little community of Cedar City to be a friendly area, the workers at Wal-Mart all have been very helpful as well as others. As it was also time to go and find a Laundromat to do some stinky clothes; we find one that has thus far been the most unique of all. I normally don’t write about Laundromats, but I cannot help much mention the one we went to today.
This little Laundromat was only a few miles away and what was unique about it was the sayings we found on the machines that were out of order. You will notice the sayings on the photo below.
The second thing that caught our eye was the flooring,
Carpeting? In a Laundromat? Yep, this one did! And very clean-I might add. Not just the floor was clean but the whole place was neat and tidy. Although many machines did have their unique little sayings on them, the place was still kept up in order. The young gentleman that was there on the day we happen to be there, was also very friendly and courteous.
The last thing that really was the conversation peace maker was an old stylish wringer-that no longer is in use, but looks appealing sitting there.
I don’t remember the name of the Laundromat, however it’s on Main St. and part of a car wash on the left side. We referred another couple parking here at Wal-Mart that is also passing through.
We are now all clean, body and clothes; we have stocked cupboards and stuffed refrigerator/freezer and even got our belly full on a nice little pizza joint called Five Buck Pizza. We got a med, any topping for $5.0o. And it sure was mmmm-good!
We will head out tomorrow (Wednesday) to San Rafael Swell, our last leg of this trip before parking it for the summer at Grand Junction CO.
Final conclusion: if it wasn’t sooooo darn cold in the winter months here at Cedar City, Utah, I know I would make this my home, for the area is beautiful and the folks friendly to a strange face.
Since we had no choice but to be out on our 14th day and not sure what weather conditions we could get in, we opted to boogie out as soon as the rain let up on our 13th day (Monday). We weren’t planning on going very far, only into Cedar City Utah; where we would spend the night fueling up on groceries, and fuel for both the motor home and the car. The drive was only about 60 miles, so we really thought we could be it here before the next round of rain-WRONG!
Just about half way there, we could see the heavy rain heading right at us. We kept on truckin forwards, but slowly, even got some folks a little upset with us because I refuse to put the medal to the floor. They honked and flipped us off as they passed us on by.
Now, by me going slow with the heavy rain, about 5 miles just outside of Cedar City, became a stretch of Black Ice. On the Southbound of I-15 there were at least 5 vehicles that had spin out of control and was in the ditch-one appearing to have been very serious; while on our side, Northbound there were already 3 cars in the ditch that apparently spun out-including one of the vehicles that rushed by us earlier.
As we arrived safely here at the Wal-Mart we are thankful for our safety and my cautious driving. We will park it here for a night or two until this front moves on. But as we are sitting here, socked in completely with cloud and rain; the rain soon gave way to heavy snow showers. Many cars already here in the parking lot have snow/slush accumulating on their vehicles! As the clouds come and go we shortly see that the mountainous surrounding have snow on the peaks! I take Leah out to go potty, and snow tries to accumulate even on the grassy area!
Brian and I have to sit back and think, that last time we actually seen that much snow (which literally isn’t much to some), had to been over 10 years!
We find this little community of Cedar City to be a friendly area, the workers at Wal-Mart all have been very helpful as well as others. As it was also time to go and find a Laundromat to do some stinky clothes; we find one that has thus far been the most unique of all. I normally don’t write about Laundromats, but I cannot help much mention the one we went to today.
This little Laundromat was only a few miles away and what was unique about it was the sayings we found on the machines that were out of order. You will notice the sayings on the photo below.
The second thing that caught our eye was the flooring,
Carpeting? In a Laundromat? Yep, this one did! And very clean-I might add. Not just the floor was clean but the whole place was neat and tidy. Although many machines did have their unique little sayings on them, the place was still kept up in order. The young gentleman that was there on the day we happen to be there, was also very friendly and courteous.The last thing that really was the conversation peace maker was an old stylish wringer-that no longer is in use, but looks appealing sitting there.
I don’t remember the name of the Laundromat, however it’s on Main St. and part of a car wash on the left side. We referred another couple parking here at Wal-Mart that is also passing through.
We are now all clean, body and clothes; we have stocked cupboards and stuffed refrigerator/freezer and even got our belly full on a nice little pizza joint called Five Buck Pizza. We got a med, any topping for $5.0o. And it sure was mmmm-good!
We will head out tomorrow (Wednesday) to San Rafael Swell, our last leg of this trip before parking it for the summer at Grand Junction CO.
Final conclusion: if it wasn’t sooooo darn cold in the winter months here at Cedar City, Utah, I know I would make this my home, for the area is beautiful and the folks friendly to a strange face.
