Hehhe. ah! What a Pow Wow! Great report Brother!
I enjoyed your post! What a campout you will never forget.
Mark Jones
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:05:42 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> For those of you who wanted to hear of the great flood at Pow Wow
> here is
> my husbands version of North Texas Pow Wow 2000.
>
> It was a dark and stormy night. Well, that pretty well sums it
> up. BUT
> if you want the gory details, read on…
>
> We started out with the typical perfect Council Fire. The grass
> was knee
> high and even the mosquitoes got saved as they feasted on Holy food.
> Kids
> came down to get saved and filled with the Spirit.
>
> Pow Wow, I admit is my favorite camp because Paul Patterson
> finds the
> best praise youth bands. Even though I'm the only one dancing,
> standing or
> jumping, I enjoy the music.
>
> Well, night fell and the rumor of the rain up north moving our
> way was
> eminent. So we bunked down around midnight and it was hot and
> muggy. Praise
> God for the rain, it was cool and soothing. It just didn't stop.
> So at 5:30
> am Cmdr. Southerly Buster (who was on his first outing) went to
> shower. On
> the way back I explained to my neophyte friend that our attitudes
> would
> dictate the boys attitude.
>
> So when we arrived at the camp we tied a tarp over the cook
> stove. Then
> asked if Sr. Cmdr was awake. Yeah! "Cmdr Ivey, it is the most
> beautiful
> morning I've ever seen. It's a great day!" I said. He laughed. I
> glanced
> in the direction of his tent; the Cmdr. camping behind his tent had
> a puzzled
> look on his face as if I must have hit my head on a rock. No. I
> was
> standing there wearing a trash bag poncho walking around with two
> inches of
> mud caked on the bottom of my shoes, tying up a tarp and looking for
> matches.
> Rain happens. Life goes on.
>
> Of course it stopped by flag raising. We were amazed and
> intrigued when
> FCF shot a canon. It blew us away. It only took 9 tries after all
> that
> rain. FCF is very persistent. It just hit me…what Cmdr.
> Explained to his
> wife "Honey, I bought a canon for FCF. Park your car outside and we
> can keep
> it in the garage!"? I also thought of kids left at home with a
> loaded canon.
> Then mom gets a call at work, "Mommy, I love you." Mom says, "What
> do you
> want?" Kid's reply, "Mom, didn't you always want on sunroof in the
> living
> room?"
>
> Due to no lack of preparedness or lack of camping skills the
> rain over
> came and some Outposts got water in their tents and went home
> Saturday
> evening. Those were the smart ones.
>
> Saturday night it rained then it poured and every boy was sound
> asleep as
> Cmdrs. Moved and squirmed to avoid the drips. I never slept with my
> toes in
> water but it wasn't bad. About 3:00 am my son woke up and had to go
> to the
> bathroom in the middle of this downpour. He sat there Indian style
> for five
> minutes hunched over with his hands in his lap not knowing what to
> do. I
> couldn't stand to see him suffer anymore. So I opened the tent flap
> and said
> do it. So He stood in the tent and went into the two inches of
> water rushing
> past us. I explained it was ok as the rain was washing it all away.
> Nature
> won.
>
> I was awake most of the night but went to sleep around 4:00 am
> when Ken
> Harris' came to our campsite on a bulldozer to tell us to get our
> boys to
> higher ground. Ken Harris received this revelation I guess around
> three.
> You see Ken was camping by the lake and he was rudely awakened by
> his air
> mattress that was floating and slapping against the side of his
> tent. Ken
> said, "I thought I was in the lake." He had to reach down through a
> foot of
> water before he found the ground. He alerted staff then went to the
> campsites and just started pulling up tents were literally half
> under water.
>
> So about forty of us started out under the pavilion several more
> outposts
> trickled in before and after sunrise. Staff passed out left over
> ponchos,
> and brought us hot tea and hot Kool-aid. Ken organized several
> Cmdrs. to go
> down in groups to help camp sites pack up and put their equipment in
> the
> front loader then drop it off up the hill.
>
> FCF reconnaissance sprang into action t help. I'm not an
> experienced
> flood victim, but I would imagine the threat of homeless snakes
> could be a
> concern. Sr. Cmdr. Ivey told me his boys were starving as they did
> not get
> there gear till around 12:00 pm, so he took his boys to Denney's.
> He said
> "we got the strangest looks form customers seeing a Cmdr. And six
> boys
> covered in mud from head to toe.
>
> I took one last look before I left. My jaw hit the ground. The
> shoreline
> of the lake was at least 75 feet higher than it was when I went to
> sleep.
>
> Our camp theme was "It Is Well." I want them to change my patch
> to It Is
> Wet. Some campers have been through fire and flood. I'm half way
> there. I
> want my flood badge (such a thing?) and I am going to make I
> survived Pow Wow
> t-shirts for my son and I.
>
> Hope you enjoyed.
>
> In Christ's Love,
>
> Chris Gist
>
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