Thursday – A Little Personal – Memorial Day Weekend Aftermath

~ John W. Howell

I thought it would be fun to give you a view of what happens when you are a tourist and decide to ignore “Flood Warnings, High Wind Warnings, and Severe Weather Warnings.” I hope you enjoy the end result of not being able to fix stupid. A good case of Schadenfreude.

This first photo is of a car parked by a campsite. The wheels are buried and looks to be abandoned given the open door.

Aftermath of Memorial Day

Here is what is left of the campsite

More of same. The people obviously just walked off.

This is a shot of a dog bed, belt, and pants. Who leaves behind a dog bed?

I had to take one last shot of this abandoned camp. They not only left the dog bed but someone’s pillow. I don’t get that at all.

Wonder where the charcoal grill is? It is right here along with a pop-up at a different camp.

Here is another swamped camp. The tide came in about 3 am so I’m sure waking up was a rich and rewarding experience.

Here is an upside down pop-up frame that I’m sure the folks were looking forward to using the next day. It is buried.

This is the piece de resistance. Trust me this is not a cabin cruiser.

We had more thrills with a stuck motorhome. The little dog is concerned

A good Samaritan decided to help pull the motorhome out with his surplus army truck.

Now we see no good deed goes unpunished. The truck got stuck, and the crane is needed to pull it out.

More truck drama

The truck is out now it is the motorhome’s turn. Yes, it got unstuck. The cost for this kind of thing runs about $1000.00. Might have been cheaper to turn on the radio last night.

Lucy

“I enjoyed sniffing all that stuff, Boss.”

“I’m glad you did, Lucy. You did a nice job of it.”

64 thoughts on “Thursday – A Little Personal – Memorial Day Weekend Aftermath”

  1. Why do people think sand is as vehicle friendly as asphalt? Hard enough to walk over it, so of course a heavy vehicle designed for more solid roads will sink. Though that van mess is oddly impressive. You gotta work hard to pull that disaster off.

    So, who ate a tourist?

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  4. Loved these shots, John, but Lucy stole the show at the end! Excellent job – great entertainment – thank you!

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  6. I have to go with Lucy as well, although I passed this onto an RV enthusiast I follow on Twitter. I think you need a poster like GP’s, John “There’s dumb and then there’s tourist dumb” What were they thinking?

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  8. What I don’t get is that a high tideline’s pretty hard to miss… 😛 Also there’s a big difference between sand that’s been wet twice in 24 hours and sand that’s been dry most of the year? 😎
    Do weekenders leave their brains at home or what? 😀

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    1. There is a disease here on the island. It goes by many names: margarita fever, beer flu, vodka drama, gin gout, and bourbon blues. It causes a brain freeze that only leaves once a tourist leaves. Thanks, Jan

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  9. The truck drama was crazy!! A lot easier to abandon a tent/campsite, but a 20,000 lb motorhome (or there about, I’m guessing) on wet sand?!?! I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve witnessed tourists being foolish. Probably won’t be the last either!

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  13. Check the plates on that car. No big deal, it’s a rental. Those campsite images look like the opening scene of a murder mystery. Good thing you didn’t poke through, no idea what (or who) you might find in there.

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  17. Amazingly dumb! There are other places to camp other than just right on the beach. Don’t they check any weather reports or get alerts on their phones? And what trash to leave behind!!!! We are getting attached to Lucy!

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  22. Yanno, these images made me consider something. I’ve never seen an unhappy ending to a Subaru commercial. The Edgar Allen Poe in me hopes they visit your neck of the woods some time soon. Is that mean? Okay, don’t answer that.

    Thank you Boss. And Lucy . . . (She’s like a canine Gracie.) The kids won’t understand that reference, and if we chased it with George Burns . . still nada.

    You’re a funny, funny man.

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    1. Thanks Pilgrim. The nice part about the Subaru is Subaru’s don’t cause people to get stuck. People cause Subarus to get stuck. I think I can defend that. I like the Gracie Allen reference. We do tend to think of Lucy more like Lucy Ricardo though. She always has a lot of splaining to do. 😀

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