Its stories like these that make it important to have weather alert radio's.....also checking weather maps on a daily basis to see what is coming and being prepared to move out of harms way before it gets there.
I would rather be safe and moved out of the way than be traumatized because I thought it wont happen to me!
We all travel the country and enter into areas that we cannot comprehend the weather pattern and how extreme an area can be punished.
until you have sat thru a...
Hurricane
tornado
Flood
Ice out
Blizzard or snow
Heat Wave
All of these can be an extreme life changing event....plan accordingly!!
-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 08:41:48 AM
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
08:51 AM Apr 15, 2014
We have a MidLand 300 weather radio that stays on fulltime. It will automatically tune into the closest 6 stations for severe weather. Time like yesterday/last night it can be handy if you don't know an area.
BiggarView said
09:02 AM Apr 15, 2014
My first reaction after reading the yahoo story was they sure were lucky to have only minor injuries.
The damage got me to thinking about devices to anchor or otherwise tie down your rig to mitigate the potential for being rolled over by high wind while parked. I found some anchor things that looked like augers you drive into the ground that you could attach tie down straps or heavy ropes(not sure they wouldn't stretch in high stress conditions). But then it occurred to me, is there securement points on the TT's, 5ers or MH's to attach such a anchor system. The idea seems practical enough and relatively inexpensive for the prevention(up to a point) of one's home being flipped over in a wind storm. Thoughts anyone?
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 09:03:46 AM
Bob and Lindy said
10:14 AM Apr 15, 2014
RV's are designed for forward movement and can probably withstand going down the road at 100 mph or more, but very little strength from a side force. Lucky Mike suggestions are probably the best. Be aware!
BiggarView said
10:37 AM Apr 15, 2014
Bob and Lindy wrote:
RV's are designed for forward movement and can probably withstand going down the road at 100 mph or more, but very little strength from a side force. Lucky Mike suggestions are probably the best. Be aware!
Totally agree, we have a NOAA weather radio also.
Plan A is always to be aware, so is Plan B, etc, but if you're stuck or unable to relocate your rig to safety, are there ways to securely tie the rig down or anchor it somehow to mitigate side wind stress in severe situations and help prevent the roll over that is pictured in the yahoo story? Sure, I can go to a shelter but the rig will have to stay and ride it out and hopefully it doesn't get a direct hit so I have something to come back to after I come out of the shelter.
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 10:38:11 AM
Lucky Mike said
10:47 AM Apr 15, 2014
if you wanted to mitigate side winds.....turn your coach into the direction of the wind...less surface area....
BiggarView said
11:25 AM Apr 15, 2014
and if that isn't an option.....
and if you say borrow your neighbor's backhoe to dig a rv sized trench to put the rig in to defilade it from the wind, I beat you to it .
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:31:55 AM
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:32:20 AM
Lucky Mike said
11:50 AM Apr 15, 2014
if thats not an option your not looking at all your options and are in a panic.....or you waited til the last minute in which I would suggest retrieving your camera from the coach and running for cover....take lots of pictures , no one will believe the story without them!!!!
-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:51:47 AM
BiggarView said
11:59 AM Apr 15, 2014
Mike you crack me up. Seriously, you're harder to pin down than a greased pig.
I think I'll invent an RV turntable with a tail fin on it so that the rig will automatically turn to face the wind no matter which direction it blows. Hauling it around could be a problem.!!!!
Lucky Mike said
12:04 PM Apr 15, 2014
most major weather events are forecast days before they occur......if you wait until they say "WARNING" you just wasted a days notice.
you can watch storm conditions move across the country ,live on Doppler radar online and know the areas it going to pass thru and the intensity........
most weather foracasters have a 5 day outlook.....not to mention they tell you way in advance the possibilities of bad weather coming.....
if there are bad storms in Texas that are moving East and you are in Florida on I-10 going west there is a good probability you are going to drive into that storm....Plan on it.
BiggarView said
12:22 PM Apr 15, 2014
As a licensed weather observer, I know all the signs and normally plan for those events accordingly.
Lets try to figure a hypothetical case in which you're inevitably not going to be able to move, turn, hide, bury, barricade (have I left anything out?) your rig.
Hmmm, lets see, your bank declares bankruptcy, your tow vehicle is wrecked in the parking lot while shopping for groceries, meanwhile your cash stash is found by thieves while you went to the grocery store, the fuel depot next to the local dealer that is the only place within 300 miles that sells pickups capable of towing your rig blows up and burns the entire dealer lot to the ground, pigs are flying, Cellular service is knocked out solar flares, The post office is on strike, Western Union has folded, credit cards are no longer being accepted due to global economic panic.....
I guess in that case I'll just bend over and kiss my A$$ goodbye.
But I won't panic, life is good, right?
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 12:22:44 PM
Lucky Mike said
12:46 PM Apr 15, 2014
If all that occurs............the storm will miss you just out of pity!!!!!!!....
cherylbrv said
12:56 PM Apr 15, 2014
Lucky Mike wrote:
most major weather events are forecast days before they occur......if you wait until they say "WARNING" you just wasted a days notice.
you can watch storm conditions move across the country ,live on Doppler radar online and know the areas it going to pass thru and the intensity........
most weather foracasters have a 5 day outlook.....not to mention they tell you way in advance the possibilities of bad weather coming.....
if there are bad storms in Texas that are moving East and you are in Florida on I-10 going west there is a good probability you are going to drive into that storm....Plan on it.
If you have one of the top of the line weather radios that automatically alert you, how far in advance do you get the alerts? Is it when the storm is just about on top of you, or a few days out?
Lucky Mike said
01:04 PM Apr 15, 2014
all of the above......I normally turn on the NOAA Weather broadcast from the weather alert each morning with my cup of coffee so I can hear what is going on.....most weather alerts do not come about on an alert radio until it is a warning. but you can hit the broadcast button and hear all the current movements for your area.....there are several websites that have live Doppler Radar so you can see what is going on in your area and across the country......these sites allow you to track weather patterns as they move and even have by the hour timelines as to where they will be...
if you make it a habit to do this a couple days a week it pays off by being ahead of bad weather or preparing for it.
BiggarView said
01:37 PM Apr 15, 2014
Lucky Mike wrote:
If all that occurs............the storm will miss you just out of pity!!!!!!!....
Ahhh, so all I have to do is look so pathetically screwed by things beyond my control that Mr. Cumulonimbus and Mrs. Gustfront will divert mercifully and willfully away and wipe out somebody less pathetic looking. I wonder if that rule works for other things in life.
Nope, there's always somebody meaner and more spiteful than Mr C. and Mrs. G
Mike, you are the master. Love your comedy stylings.
Barbaraok said
01:42 PM Apr 15, 2014
That's one of the reasons we aren't in that area in the spring. We spent one spring going from Florida northward. Had tornado warnings/severe storms for 3 months until we got into upper New York. Never again. West Coast up in the spring, East Coast down in the fall for us.
Barb
Terry and Jo said
07:04 PM Apr 15, 2014
Brian and Cindi,
I doubt that the tie-down idea would be sufficient. I imagine with enough wind against the side of the trailer, it might pull the auger anchors from the ground, depending on the consistency of the ground. Besides, if the wind rocked the RV enough, the cable/strap running over the roof of the RV might damage the roof if they weren't tight enough. Also, many of the better tie-down systems are designed to be set up once and left because they are for mobile homes.
Of Mike's list above, we've experienced everything except the hurricanes and the flooding. We are too far from a coast here in Oklahoma and I watch to make sure I don't get into a flood plain.
Terry
BiggarView said
07:14 PM Apr 15, 2014
As I suspected, though I thought maybe such augers might be placed near the rig and attached via heavy duty ratchet straps to hooks or securement points mounted on the frame of the rig rather than over the roof. The more I think about it, the less I like the idea. It was fun bantering with Mike. Cracks me up!
Brian
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 07:14:50 PM
kb0zke said
06:39 PM Apr 19, 2014
We're constantly checking the weather on the computer. If things start to look "interesting" we figure out what to do just in case. Even though this MH is our home, I'd have no second thoughts about letting it ride out a tornado while we're in a shelter. If we're in hurricane country when they start talking about one headed toward us we'll go elsewhere. We generally don't care for parking under trees, but we like to have them close enough that we get shade. A couple of years ago we were in Mississippi when a thunderstorm roared through and dropped a 16" diameter branch on the next campsite. Fortunately no one was there, but it could have been on our camper. Would have ruined the whole trip.
I hope all are okay... really frightening.
http://news.yahoo.com/storm-topples-rvs-near-mississippis-gulf-coast-033111380.html
Ron
Its stories like these that make it important to have weather alert radio's.....also checking weather maps on a daily basis to see what is coming and being prepared to move out of harms way before it gets there.
I would rather be safe and moved out of the way than be traumatized because I thought it wont happen to me!
We all travel the country and enter into areas that we cannot comprehend the weather pattern and how extreme an area can be punished.
until you have sat thru a...
Hurricane
tornado
Flood
Ice out
Blizzard or snow
Heat Wave
All of these can be an extreme life changing event....plan accordingly!!
-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 08:41:48 AM
My first reaction after reading the yahoo story was they sure were lucky to have only minor injuries.
The damage got me to thinking about devices to anchor or otherwise tie down your rig to mitigate the potential for being rolled over by high wind while parked. I found some anchor things that looked like augers you drive into the ground that you could attach tie down straps or heavy ropes(not sure they wouldn't stretch in high stress conditions). But then it occurred to me, is there securement points on the TT's, 5ers or MH's to attach such a anchor system. The idea seems practical enough and relatively inexpensive for the prevention(up to a point) of one's home being flipped over in a wind storm. Thoughts anyone?
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 09:03:46 AM
Totally agree, we have a NOAA weather radio also.
Plan A is always to be aware, so is Plan B, etc, but if you're stuck or unable to relocate your rig to safety, are there ways to securely tie the rig down or anchor it somehow to mitigate side wind stress in severe situations and help prevent the roll over that is pictured in the yahoo story? Sure, I can go to a shelter but the rig will have to stay and ride it out and hopefully it doesn't get a direct hit so I have something to come back to after I come out of the shelter.
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 10:38:11 AM
and if that isn't an option.....
and if you say borrow your neighbor's backhoe to dig a rv sized trench to put the rig in to defilade it from the wind, I beat you to it
.
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:31:55 AM
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:32:20 AM
if thats not an option your not looking at all your options and are in a panic.....or you waited til the last minute in which I would suggest retrieving your camera from the coach and running for cover....take lots of pictures , no one will believe the story without them!!!!
-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 11:51:47 AM
Mike you crack me up. Seriously, you're harder to pin down than a greased pig.
I think I'll invent an RV turntable with a tail fin on it so that the rig will automatically turn to face the wind no matter which direction it blows. Hauling it around could be a problem.!!!!
you can watch storm conditions move across the country ,live on Doppler radar online and know the areas it going to pass thru and the intensity........
most weather foracasters have a 5 day outlook.....not to mention they tell you way in advance the possibilities of bad weather coming.....
if there are bad storms in Texas that are moving East and you are in Florida on I-10 going west there is a good probability you are going to drive into that storm....Plan on it.
As a licensed weather observer, I know all the signs and normally plan for those events accordingly.
Lets try to figure a hypothetical case in which you're inevitably not going to be able to move, turn, hide, bury, barricade (have I left anything out?) your rig.
Hmmm, lets see, your bank declares bankruptcy, your tow vehicle is wrecked in the parking lot while shopping for groceries, meanwhile your cash stash is found by thieves while you went to the grocery store, the fuel depot next to the local dealer that is the only place within 300 miles that sells pickups capable of towing your rig blows up and burns the entire dealer lot to the ground, pigs are flying, Cellular service is knocked out solar flares, The post office is on strike, Western Union has folded, credit cards are no longer being accepted due to global economic panic.....
I guess in that case I'll just bend over and kiss my A$$ goodbye.
But I won't panic, life is good, right?
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 12:22:44 PM
If all that occurs............the storm will miss you just out of pity!!!!!!!....
If you have one of the top of the line weather radios that automatically alert you, how far in advance do you get the alerts? Is it when the storm is just about on top of you, or a few days out?
if you make it a habit to do this a couple days a week it pays off by being ahead of bad weather or preparing for it.
Ahhh, so all I have to do is look so pathetically screwed by things beyond my control that Mr. Cumulonimbus and Mrs. Gustfront will divert mercifully and willfully away and wipe out somebody less pathetic looking. I wonder if that rule works for other things in life.
Nope, there's always somebody meaner and more spiteful than Mr C. and Mrs. G
Mike, you are the master. Love your comedy stylings.
Barb
Brian and Cindi,
I doubt that the tie-down idea would be sufficient. I imagine with enough wind against the side of the trailer, it might pull the auger anchors from the ground, depending on the consistency of the ground. Besides, if the wind rocked the RV enough, the cable/strap running over the roof of the RV might damage the roof if they weren't tight enough. Also, many of the better tie-down systems are designed to be set up once and left because they are for mobile homes.
Of Mike's list above, we've experienced everything except the hurricanes and the flooding. We are too far from a coast here in Oklahoma and I watch to make sure I don't get into a flood plain.
Terry
As I suspected, though I thought maybe such augers might be placed near the rig and attached via heavy duty ratchet straps to hooks or securement points mounted on the frame of the rig rather than over the roof. The more I think about it, the less I like the idea. It was fun bantering with Mike. Cracks me up!
Brian
-- Edited by biggaRView on Tuesday 15th of April 2014 07:14:50 PM