Today Ken and I took a taxi to Super Walmart. We got a scoop about 'Harry Potter'. No, not the notorious one, and maybe that might not even be his real name, but the gossip is that he was run over, his mother or sister thought he was asleep in the road (no, I didn't get that either), that he's one of 16 children from 1 mother, and she no taller than 4'10", and the poor mother had to be transported to the hospital when she found out he had been run over and killed.
Ken was amazed at Super Walmart, also, and we picked up quite a few, little things, like needle nose pliers (Ken dropped his in the filthy water), 2 for $4.56...can't beat that! We came back and did boat organizing, washed clothes, then had happy hour with Katja and Geoff on their boat and discussed our plans for the next day. We decided the Poughkeepsie Yacht Club would be a good destination and I'd call and see about getting mooring balls. Their are few safe anchorages south of here and they are few and far between.
When Hurricane Irene came through this area, all the marinas prepared their boats by putting them on the hard, as they due in the winter, only they had flooding of 13 feet above normal and all thos
e boats were floating. Riverview was practically destroyed with the docks haphazard and missing, the bank wall eroded, everything under water. So, the place looked quite different from when we were there spring of 2009. But they were operating and plan to rebuild everything.
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