Day 11 - White City RV Park in White City, NM

Today DH woke up with a migraine headache. We left Abilene around 8 AM headed to Carlsbad, NM. About an hour into our trip West, DH decided that I should drive. I have driven it before, but I have rules. No toll booths, no bridges, no construction and especially no cattle chutes. Of course I have driven through construction areas and bridges without toll booths due to the fact that there was no place to pull over to let George retake the reins. However this time It was fairly easy except I tended to occasionally hit the rumble strip when a truck passed me. After I was directed by the gremlin to get off I-20 to go North and successfully made the turn on to a parkway type road. MIL was telling me camping stories from when DH was little. One of the stories was going to Mcdonald's and getting the fish fillet sandwich for 15 cents.  I remembered when French fries were 15 cents and hamburgers there were 25 cents. MIL was feeling nostalgic and asked if we could go to McDonald's some time on the trip. Surprisingly the hour went fast. The Gremlin told me to turn left but I didn't see the turn, so it told me to turn left again, so I turned and came to a stop sign. DH came and said he felt better and took over. I might add the speed limits were 75 miles an hour on these back roads. I had the cruise control set at 60 when I was driving. DH drove for about a 1/2 hour when his headache became intense again. So I took over. When I drive, MIL rides shotgun. DH was sleeping on the couch. I was catching up to a storm and I had no idea where the windshield wipers are? I was looking but I couldn't find them and it started to rain. Finally I had to yell to DH, "Where are the wipers?!!!" He yelled from the back that they were near the headlights. Then I saw them but I don't have monkey arms so it was some effort to turn them on as the steering wheel was in the way. So it rained but nothing crazy, however when I drove into New Mexico through the town of Hobbs, the streets were all flooded. DH woke up feeling hungry so I pulled into this big parking lot as he said he could take over driving. So we all went to McDonald's. MIL had her fish, DH had a burger and I a crispy chicken sandwich and we all had fries. DH drove through Carlsbad and turned North to go to the KOA. As we were driving I realized the KOA was 58 miles from the National Park. So I had DH pull over while I called a no frills campground in Whites City which was at the entrance of the park to see if they had any available sites. They had one, so I called the KOA and cancelled our reservations, and we forfeited our deposit too. So DH was able to make a U-Turn as it was a very wide road. There are black storm clouds Southwest of us as far as you can see. We got to the campground and of course the MDX was dead. So we hooked up our charging unit to the terminals and plugged the other end into the shore power outlet in the Motorhome and let it charge the battery. DH's headache returned and he took a headache pill and went to sleep around 3:30 PM. While he was sleeping I received notice from my Stormtracker 6 app on my phone that the National Weather Service had issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 8 PM. So I went into the bedroom and asked DH what would happen if it rained on the charger? So he said something about lots of rubber gaskets. So then I said, no I mean what would happen if it rained on the battery charger hooked to the battery with the hood up? He said he forgot about the MDX, but it should start by now. So I asked him with cable I should take off first? He said black. So I went out and started the MDX. I then removed the battery charger and put it and the extension cord in the MDX. Then I sat in the MDX with it running for 25 minutes. MIL came out to make sure all was well. Then I turned it off and locked it. So MIL and I are outside and we see two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and a Shitzu. Their human parents were from the West Coast going East and we were going West.  I then got a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the Eddy County which is the county we are staying as well as where the KOA is located. This storm was expected to hit the town the KOA is in. The warning said that golf ball sized hail, 70 mph winds, frequent sky to ground lightning, both animals and people would be severely injured and should seek shelter immediately, to an interior room away from Windows. There was also a possible tornado hidden in the rain bands of these dangerous line of storms. Both MIL and  I kept looking at our phones at the radar. Fortunately for us the nasty weather was both North and South of us. I took lots of photos of the weird storm clouds and later the gorgeous sunset. I made quesadillas tonight for dinner with leftover sirloin steak and woke DH up as they were placed on the table. It was about 6:30 PM. Watching the evening news just now, it's confirmed there was one tornado in Hope, NM and several funnel clouds were spotted in different parts of the state. A funnel cloud isn't a tornado until it touches down. Back in 1972, when my Mom, Dad, Sister and I went West to Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks and back again, we saw a double funnel cloud. The sky was pitch black and the funnel clouds were white against the dark storm clouds.