Thunderstorms...playing it safe

Have I mentioned that flexibility is important?  There were thunderstorms, heavy rain & wind this morning through early afternoon, so it didn't make sense to push off from Elizabeth City today.  Had a nice day with Dad, but man I'm ready to paddle.

Water at Elizabeth City was right at minor flood stage as well.  If you look at the graph below, the rapid drop in the water level is when the back side of Dorian was pushing all of the water South, away from Elizabeth City.  That must have been something to see.

As much as I wanted to get going, I also wanted to be smart.  Paddling 24 miles in flood stage water with rain and lightning ain't smart!

The forecast looks good tomorrow so I'm counting on going.  However, there's no way I can cover the whole route at this point.  New plan (Plan D?) is to skip two days worth of paddling - from Elizabeth City to Kill Devil Hills and make up that stretch in the future.

So I'll start paddling South from Kill Devil Hills tomorrow and hopefully make it to Frisco or Hatteras Village by Saturday.

Thanks for following!

The weather today.

 

Killing time when I can’t paddle.



I can think of lots of worse places to be stuck. Thanks Richard McMillan!