June Trip Day 4 - On to Nauvoo While Dodging Twisters

Friday morning dawned with rain and lighting. In fact there was a tornado watch in the county just to the north of us. That storm was heading southeast right into the northern suburbs of Chicago, where we could have been. That part of Chicago never got a tornado but had terrible hail and heavy rain that flooded out highways, etc.
We took off to the southwest as we headed across the state to Nauvoo. We had off and on really heavy rain interspersed with cloudy but dry weather. We drove all the way to Keokuk, Iowa, where we stayed the night. No sooner than we got there than they had a tornado warning for Fort Madison just 15 miles north of us and across the Mississippi River from Nauvoo. In fact our cousins who were staying in the campgrounds at Nauvoo were evacuated to the men's restrooms at the campground. No tornado set down there but the path of the watch traveled the path we had driven just hours earlier.
That late afternoon we went over to Nauvoo to see my cousins and plan out what we wanted to do for the weekend.