Ever been through a tornado, hurricane or... ?

[Firstime RVer]

I was introduced to an app for my phone called My Radar. It has been invaluable for tracking inclement weather. It can show weather patterns over a large area as they approach and provide valuable info that you can use to decide how to best avoid the more serious threats.
Safe travels and all the best.

 

[TheBar]

A tornado's path can be diverted by a man-made structure. On 06/05/1966 my dad was working at Union Equity elevator A in Enid, OK. Elevator A was several hundred feet tall and about 1,000 foot long east to west. Back then their elevators were the biggest grain storage in the USA.

A very unusual tornado came from the NE to the SW which is the opposite direction most move in. The F2 tornado hit the side of the elevator and instead of jumping over the elevator the tornado went down along the side for several hundred feet until it reached the west end.

After it was over my dad's '57 Mercury was the only running vehicle but a steel girder was wrapped around it and all the glass was blown out. The crew pried the girder off with crowbars and my dad drove them all to their homes afterwards. But the car quit running the next day. The mechanic said the tailpipe was full of sand and had blown up into the engine.

I worked at elevator A in the summers of 1970-1974 while I was in college. The tornado blasted all the white paint off several hundred feet of the north side to the west end. I drove by there 30 years ago to see the damage after a grain dust explosion blew out several bins on one side. I noticed the north side was never repainted. You can probably still see where the paint is missing from the tornado.

 

[garyb1st]

Does an Earthquake count. Survived the Northridge quake of 1994. Was told by Lucy Jones, seismologist at Cal Tech, we could expect more large quakes in the coming years. Been 30+ years and we're still waiting.

 

[ButchW1]

Does an Earthquake count. Survived the Northridge quake of 1994. Was told by Lucy Jones, seismologist at Cal Tech, we could expect more large quakes in the coming years. Been 30+ years and we're still waiting.

Quit waiting... We don't need any more...

California's Big Earthquakes

A list of California's most destructive earthquakes.

www.conservation.ca.gov

Butch

 

[LarsMac]

I was in CA for several 'quakes, and it's quite unnerving. I prefer Hurricanes, myself.

 

[chuckbear]

14 named storms, 12 of those hurricanes. Our friends call us the Magnets. Chuck

 

[PancakeBill]

Growing up in RI and living in FL for a few years afforded me many hurricane experiences. As a kid I remember waiting for my Dad to get home in one, I don't remember how he got home, probably bus and walking, because his car was parked where it flooded. Not even sure he had insurance at the time, this was 54. As an adult living on the Bay, but higher than the the worst storm surge, a number, Gloria being the last one I can think og. We had a sailboat on a mooring the weathered the storm, but my Dads boat broke loose. He had insurance on that one.

Moved to FL in 2005, just after the Katrina.

 

[Jackiemac]

14 named storms, 12 of those hurricanes. Our friends call us the Magnets. Chuck

Can you start putting your location in your posts please

 

[Excalibur1]

Speak of the devil... We have severe storms as I write this... Several tornados popping up on weather radar in our Ohio Valley. Winds are clocking 60 - 70 mph.

 

[Excalibur1]

Well, so far the National Weather Service has confirmed 1 F1 and 2 F0 tornadoes touched down in my area last night; one of the F0s was pretty close. Lots of damage but no casualties. Hit a mobile home park pretty good. They say they expect to confirm more tornadoes once they look at all the data. More severe weather expected Wednesday. Such is life in Tornado Alley.

 

[Jackiemac]

Sounds scary. Hopefully you will be ok.

 

[Lou Schneider]

I did go through one other high wind event but it wasn't in my RV. Back in 1988 winds exceeding 120 MPH blew down one of the four 500 ft. towers at the major market radio station where I worked. 120 MPH was the limit of the wind gauge at the airport next to the site, the gusts were likely well above that speed. I was at home wondering if the sliding glass door in my living room would survive, I could see it noticeably flexing.

We didn't discover the downed tower until the next morning - I turned on the radio station when I got up and it didn't sound quite right. Thinking there was a transmitter problem I headed to the site and counted the towers one by one as they came into view from behind a hill. There's one, two, three ... oh no! The repairs and overhaul of the site kept me occupied for the next year and a half.

 

[jymbee]

... winds exceeding 120 MPH

Simply unimaginable.