Lavon,
Texas
Weather
Conditions; Sunny, 83 degrees
I
haven’t posted anything lately because not a whole lot has happened.
Due
to the flooding most of our park closed. All the boat ramps have been closed
too.
The
camping in this park is to a minimum. We normally have 38 camp
sites, but due to the flooding they were forced to close all but 12.
Dawn
and I worked the July 4th weekend. We expected things would be slow
since people couldn’t get to the lake.
The
Lake Manager decided to open our picnic area on Friday, July 3rd. Our park
would have the only picnic area open on this lake! We only had 30 out of 45 picnic
tables above water.
We
were instructed to allow only thirty cars into the picnic area. Those thirty
cars were allowed to leave and reenter the park as many times as they wished.
At
6:15 A.M on Saturday, July 4th people were pulling up to the
gatehouse ready to use the picnic area.
By
noon we had literally hundreds of people in our picnic area. Remember we only
had thirty picnic tables available!
The
hundreds of people were brought in by those thirty cars that had passes to
enter the park.
People
were parking along the road to the park entrance and some even parked over a
mile away at a Dollar General.
The
cars with the thirty passes were shuttling people into the park over and over.
I know that one car came into the park at least two dozen times. With each
re-entry there were four to six people in the car.
At
8:30 A.M I made my required rounds in the park and was stopped and cussed at
because the grass was tall. The grass in the picnic area was knee high.
A
minute later, I was stopped by another man and cussed at because the restrooms
were filthy.
Really
people, grown men cussing someone out in public!!!!!
Later
in the day, Dawn fell in the parking lot while trying to direct traffic. This
wouldn’t have happened if grown adults could park without mowing down signs and
blocking traffic.
She
fell on her elbow and busted it up good.
One
of the volunteers here at our park is a fire fighter. He was able to perform
some paramedic moves to get her elbow cleaned and bandaged.
We
turned away at least fifty cars because we had already sold the thirty passes.
Those people were not happy!
Thank
goodness we had the Park Rangers keeping a close watch on this park.
Around
5:00 P.M three young girls knocked on the gatehouse window and asked us to
call an ambulance. They said their seven year old cousin had hurt himself.
We
made the call and a few minutes later an ambulance, fire truck and police were in
the park. Thankfully, the emergency was not life threatening.
Our
picnic area closes at sunset. By that time, most of the picnic area was empty.
The Park Rangers came by and ran the remaining people out.
We thought the day would never end!!!!!!!
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