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  • 06/25/2008 at 10:14 pm #1726711
    Trekkin and Birdin
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      …could you share a more local view of the current weather? We had plans to head that way today, but the weather websites showed t-storms all day. Unless it’s rashly different than it was here, we could have gone.

      If anyone has a good sense for tomorrow’s predicted weather (Thursday, June 26), we’d love to hear it. We don’t mind getting a little wet, but we also don’t want to have a repeat of our final run for DeLorme pages in pouring rain and lightning. Thanks!

      06/25/2008 at 10:41 pm #1891367
      Team Deejay

        It was cloudy today, but no significant rain. They say 40% chance of rain tomorrow.

        On the other hand, now is not really the best time to cache Racine. There are still a lot of caches disabled from the flooding. If you are just coming for the Delorme cache, that area is probably pretty wet (not giving away much, there is a LOT of flooding down here). Waders would be highly recommended. (A dry suit might be better.)

        06/25/2008 at 10:54 pm #1891368
        Trekkin and Birdin
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          Thanks, we’ll come prepared! Trekkin’s done that before, and I can just wear a swimsuit with my water shoes. I’ve done that before! Somehow, the way we cache, that almost seems like the way to end our run, LOL. We’re hoping to get some things along the way, and keep going to finish off those counties. Then heading toward McHenry for some earthcaches. We just didn’t want another experience of driving a long distance, only to get “just the essentials” and pass up others to stay dry and safe.

          I just looked and it looks nice all day there until around suppertime, then the rain chances were still only around 30%.

          06/25/2008 at 11:22 pm #1891369
          Team Deejay

            I don’t know how serious you were with your comments, but you really don’t want to be walking unprotected in flood waters. The runoff contains some “not so nice” stuff. Stick to the waders and leave the swimming suit at home.

            06/25/2008 at 11:30 pm #1891370
            Trekkin and Birdin
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              Yeah, that’s what we were thinking, too. Cheesehead Dave thinks the cache should be safe, but getting to it will be the issue, I suppose.

              We’ll hopefully know more by this time tomorrow. 😀

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