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Sunday was our day to get an early start, for an early departure.

It wasn't to be.  Around 7:30, the wall front of a huge storm suddenly appeared on the horizon, and we knew we were in for a typical Oshkosh blow.

I snapped the pictures, below, right before all hell broke loose.  Soon, we were inside the tent, laying on our air mattresses, holding the windward side of the nylon tent up with our feet!   Our tent is six feet tall, and the lantern hanging in the very center actually hit me in the head during one wind gust -- while I was laying down!

But, as always, the storm soon blew over, to be followed by beautiful weather -- and we were soon ready to depart.  Luckily, we were able to depart before the second fatal accident of the show, which occurred when a Grumman TBM Avenger (a huge old WWII torpedo bomber) accidentally taxied into (over?) a small home-built RV, killing the passenger... 

When we arrived home in Iowa City, the temperature was over 100 degrees.  As we slowly pushed Atlas back into our oven-hangar, we knew that we'd lived through a week that we would long remember -- and we immediately started making plans for Oshkosh 2007!

A huge storm approaches from the northwest...	A Grumman just beat the storm...	The sunlight faded...	Mary battens down the hatches...
This is supposedly broad daylight...	I took this right before diving in the tent!	A plane getting out of Dodge before it hit...	Coming back from the showers after the storm...
Montblack saying goodbye to our OSH-kids...	That's our site -- only the Skywagon is left, and he's packed up...	Arrival in Iowa City -- that thermometer reads 100+ degrees...