It’s not like you could go online. TV and newspapers had your local, but unless there was someone you could call, usually you had to chance it. Best you usually could do was pickup a newspaper from the store when you got there.
Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it’s totally reasonable that they didn’t know when the rain was going to break.
What year would have been camping without a good weather forecast? Or then without cell data for weather forecasts? Wild.
It’s not like you could go online. TV and newspapers had your local, but unless there was someone you could call, usually you had to chance it. Best you usually could do was pickup a newspaper from the store when you got there.
We did have the Old Farmer’s Almanac, but it doesn’t really narrow it down much.
Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it’s totally reasonable that they didn’t know when the rain was going to break.
‘87! Cellphones with internet weren’t common until the early 00s, and boomers adopted them LATE! Your best bet until ~2004 was a Sidekick…
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