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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / August 2007What are the highest sustained winds youve experienced IN your RV ?
Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV by chance ? >Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds >youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure >that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most >likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category >Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV >by chance ? I would tend to think the 80 MPH winds would not be a big deal "IF" you could keep rig headed into wind. The problem would be maybe keeping it headed into the wind. 80 MPH broadside on a RV would not be good. ----------------- TheSnoMan.com > Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds > youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure > that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most > likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category > Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV > by chance ? U axe da dumbest ?'s! Just get on a friggin freeway, drive 80-100 miles an hour and see what blows off Hal 'U axe da dumbest ?'s! Just get on a friggin freeway, drive 80-100 miles an hour and see what blows off Hal' REPLY : Hal, if youre going to respond with vitrol and/or anger, please dont respond to any future posts i make . Its quite alright if you killfile me. Thanks. Quote from Sir Arthur Keith, a noted anthropologist and devout Darwinian Evolutionist : " Evolution is unproved and unprovable . We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable" > Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds > youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure > that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most > likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category > Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV > by chance ? 85 mph for 90 minutes on I-90. Amen! Pastor William Rennick > Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds > youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure > that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most > likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category > Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV > by chance ? We had our 35' Spacecraft fiver in a campground at Buxton, NC (about a mile from the Cape Hatteras light). Weather news indicated that a strong tropical storm was predicted to come ashore in South Carolina the next day. I decided late in the day to drive down and secure our camp site (run in the slides, make sure nothing loose was laying around). So I drove the 400 miles arriving after dark. I sacked out for the night and planned to take care of things in the morning. When I woke up the next morning the tropical storm had changed to a Category 2 hurricane and had turned north- was 40 miles south of Cape Hatteras. It caught the locals off guard too and no evacuation had been ordered. Once a hurricane is that close you just don't try to leave (much more dangerous on the north end of Hatteras Island). So, I ran the slides in and hunkered down. The winds were something over 100 mph where I was. The trailer rocked and rolled, but didn't move. I watched my neighbor's fishing pennant go through a 360 degree rotation as the hurricane moved over. The eye did go directly over me as we experienced the really weird sensation of no wind and a clear sky for a few minutes. Power and landline phone service went off early on, but cell service stayed good so I was giving my wife periodic sitreps all through the storm. At one point my shed door blew open and stuff was being sucked out so I went out in to the 100 mph wind long enough to secure the door. After the storm had passed by everyone started coming out to assess damage. Out trailer was under a big live oak tree and several limbs had come off and hit the trailer but left only scuff marks. One limb was pounding on the bedroom roof during the wind and I envisioned a big hole there, but when I climbed on the roof- everything was ok (thanks for a fiberglass roof). Some trees were down in the campground and some smaller trailers were knocked off their blocking, but no serious damage was experienced. However, out in the town the surf had broken through the dunes on the north end and the unevacuated tourists in several motels had salt water half way up their car doors (good towing business for several days). I should mention that our fiver weighs 16,000 pounds. In Hurricane Isabel the next year a lot of RVs were damaged, but, again, ours was fine (but I certainly wasn't there). Paul Johnson Paul, That would be a very scary predicament. In hurricane area State Parks, if you payed for a couple weeks of camping and had to leave due to an approaching hurricane, are they apt to refund your money for the time remaining ? Thanks. > Paul, That would be a very scary predicament. In hurricane area > State > Parks, if you payed for a couple weeks of camping and had to leave due > to an approaching hurricane, are they apt to refund your money for the > time remaining ? Thanks. This brings up and interesting topic. Around here they close state parks as soon as a hurricane warning goes up. They make all campers leave. But they aren't allowed to make recreational boats leave that are anchored in their safe harbor. You can't make a boat leave safe harbor during a hurricane warning when it could result in their being in harm's way and could be the cause of their death so they let them stay and tell them the park is closed and don't come ashore. That makes me wonder what would happen if they made RVs leave and there was a problem with the roads (traffic accidents and jams, fallen trees, floodings etc) that would subject RVs to even more danger sitting on an exposed highway someplace at the mercy of high winds and possible flooding. I bet they would be held liable for loss of life and property. What do you think? Harry Harris  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com 'This brings up and interesting topic. Around here they close state parks as soon as a hurricane warning goes up. They make all campers leave. But they aren't allowed to make recreational boats leave that are anchored in their safe harbor. You can't make a boat leave safe harbor during a hurricane warning when it could result in their being in harm's way and could be the cause of their death so they let them stay and tell them the park is closed and don't come ashore. That makes me wonder what would happen if they made RVs leave and there was a problem with the roads (traffic accidents and jams, fallen trees, floodings etc) that would subject RVs to even more danger sitting on an exposed highway someplace at the mercy of high winds and possible flooding. I bet they would be held liable for loss of life and property. What do you think? Harry Harris -- ' REPLY: I dont believe they would be responsible or liable for anyone under these circumstances beyond thier control. They are acting in good faith for the RVers safety by telling them to exit their Park asap due to potential dangerous conditions occuring. I just wonder if they would refund the balance of money put down for a long term stay if it had to be cut short due to a hurricane coming in. Quote from Sir Arthur Keith, a noted anthropologist and devout Darwinian Evolutionist : " Evolution is unproved and unprovable . We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable" > I just wonder if they would > refund the balance of money put down for a long term stay if it had to > be cut short due to a hurricane coming in. If I was facing an oncoming hurricane while camping in my RV, the refund would be the least of my worries! [:0( Paul if it had to be cut short due to a hurricane coming in. "If I was facing an oncoming hurricane while camping in my RV, the refund would be the least of my worries! [:0( Paul" REPLY: If there were $400 still left on the tab , id want that back (come hell or high winds !). > Paul, That would be a very scary predicament. In hurricane area State > Parks, if you payed for a couple weeks of camping and had to leave due [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >at the Frisco (National Park) campground about the lack of help before and >during a bad Nor'easter. Paul Johnson > Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds > youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure > that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most > likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category > Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV > by chance ? My wife and I rode out some 60 mph straight line winds in our 27ft. Trail-Cruiser. Not fun, but all was well. -Raf SignatureMisifus- Rafael Seibert mailto:rafseibert@suddenlink.net blog: http://rafsrincon.blogspot.com/ Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafiii home: http://www.rafandsioux.com > Whether stationery or travelling, what are the highest sustained winds > youve had while inside your RV ? I ask this question because im sure > that the present Hurricane bearing down on Mexico/Texas shores will most > likely catch some RVers ; would you ride out a lower-end category > Hurricane of say, 80 mph ? Has anyone been thru one while in their RV > by chance ? I was driving my car up highway 395 in California south of Lone Pine several years ago. We passed a highway patrol that was stopping all RV's and Semi's from going further but we didn't know just why. A while later the winds really picked up pushing my Firebird around a bit. By the time we got to Bishop we had passed 6 Semi's and 5 RV's flipped over on the side of the road. Later we heard the winds were 60mph sustained with gusts to 80mph. 'Later we heard the winds were 60mph sustained with gusts to 80mph.' REPLY: Class A and C's i think are very prone to catching the wind broadside ; havent been in winds over roughly 30 mph in my Class C yet, but, i suspect it would be real handful in broadside winds of 50 mph . |
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