Day 21 - Monday, June 29 - Rainy

 About 5 AM it started raining. In rained, on and off, most of the morning. The rain stopped until storms rolled in around 7 PM, but it remained overcast.

I did a couple of campground walkabouts, 2 miles total. There were lots of empty sites in the electric only and electric and water sites; but only a few open full hookup sites.

Quite a few sites have multiple canopies set up around there RV's.

We have seen a few of these rooftop "tents' over the years. Note the ladder to get up into it. Not for old folks.

Lots of weather warnings during the day, for heavy rain, hail, lightening, heat, etc. The heat advisory warning started at 3PM today and runs until 8PM tomorrow. This is us sitting outside at 5PM. Do we look over heated? I think the temperature was a humid 72 degrees, with a significant breeze. 

 

There were storms west and north of us. Several thousand people were without power at 7 PM. That is a lot of people in the sparsely populated UP. There are only 19 people per square mile up here. Lower Michigan has a population density of 240 people per square mile. Missouri has a population density of 90 per square mile, Ohio has a population density of 288/sq mi and Indiana 192/sq mi.

We changed to T-Mobile cell service a couple of years ago, apparently after the last time we were up here. It has been great every where else but the service was terrible in Sault Ste Marie and Brimley. It is okay here in Marquette. According to some research I did T-Mobile only has towers in "major metro area" and along "major highways" in the UP.  In other areas they have to rely on deals they have made with other cell companies (roaming). Marquette is the largest city in the UP, pop 22,000 and Sault Ste Marie is the second largest, pop 13,000. 

Forget over the air TV. In Sault Ste Marie there was one Canadian Channel. Here in Marquette NBC has a channel split into 5 channels. I wanted to have good enough cell service to be able to stream TV, if we wanted to. Before we left I noticed that the screen on my Pixel 9a had a hairline crack in it. It is still fine for use but in case the crack got worse I brought along my old Pixel 5a. Both Verizon and AT&T are supposed to have much better service up here. Today I activated the Pixel 5a on Consumer Cellular (AT&T). It will be interesting to see if it works better when we leave here. 

It is still raining but the storms appear to have passed us by.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.