Well last night got interesting about 1am, Cherri got up and was worried about the storm. There was still quite a bit of wind blowing still and I tried to reassure her that the weather radio was on that would alert us if the weather service issued any warnings and was certain that the local police would come down the beach on the loud speaker telling us to get off the beach. I was just about to get out of bed and look for myself when I heard a horn honking, going to the door I was surprised to see that the water was up to the trailer and the person honking the horn was the local police. I told Cherri to get things packed and how to bring in the slide out, I went outside and started lifting the stabilizer jacks and getting the trailer hooked up. Starting the truck, throwing it in reverse and it will not move! All the tires are about an inch from the rim in sand, four wheel drive and a little effort it finally moves. I pull it to the front of the trailer and get it in position but should have made sure I was ready to hook things up because by the time I was ready which couldn't have been more than a couple minutes the water that was coming up to the truck made it difficult to line the truck up because the tires wanted to stay in that rut.
I finally hooked up and attempted to move forward, not going to happen. I was able to backup a few inches but I didn't want to back up very much because the trailer tires were on my leveling boards giving me about five feet to get a little momentum. Moving forward this time in four wheel drive low range and we are on the move to higher ground. Once on stable ground I stop to thank the officer for coming down the beach and he advised us of a safe location. He also told us that anytime this area gets a heavy rain this section of beach floods out, sometimes right up to the dunes so he wanted to check and make sure the area was clear.
The remainder of the night it was rainy and windy but we were high and mostly dry.
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