JeffBett
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My parents live pretty close to where the tornados hit this weekend in Iowa and drove by the campers sales place they bought their 5er at a couple years ago. If sales were down, I think the insurance payout may help this dealer get rid of old inventory. Its amazing how it picks and chooses what to flip.
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wayne_tw
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All I can say is, "WOW!"
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everymilesamemory
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Someone else asked a question on here today as to what would happen to the RV in a Tornado?
Here is your answer
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Serena
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That's what I keep saying - open the windows, open the windows, open the windows! When that glass implodes, you don't want to be there. It's a wall of air - it'll pass right through if it can, and knock your place down if it can't. I notice it rolled right over the Airstream - gotta love the name all over again. And it nailed the trailers with the slides sticking out. But it left the cars, apparently.
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docdialtone
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Another WOW!!!
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane? Because the door was opened!
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Mrs. Mik
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Serena wrote:That's what I keep saying - open the windows, open the windows, open the windows! When that glass implodes, you don't want to be there. It's a wall of air - it'll pass right through if it can, and knock your place down if it can't. I notice it rolled right over the Airstream - gotta love the name all over again. And it nailed the trailers with the slides sticking out. But it left the cars, apparently.
According to GMA, opening the windows during a tornado is a myth:
Quote:What if you are in your home when a tornado is coming? For decades, people were told to open doors and windows to equalize pressure to prevent the building from exploding. It is advice tornado watchers have been trying to put to rest for years.
"It's more important to take shelter than try open or close windows, because that's not going to make a difference if a tornado hits," said Metz. "It's going to blow those windows apart anyway."
"A tornado will very efficiently open those windows for you," Willenburg added.
Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Weather/Story?id=4664381&page=3
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Unbelievable!
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WOW, some don't have a scrach and others are on the roof. How does it pick which ones to flip and which to let alone? Tornados are one of the things that truly scare me.
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Seriously... THANKS for posting the pictures. I couldn't imagine such a thing.
"CrazyApe" has some previously-unsold, new, repaired RV's for auction. I wonder if THIS is how they got there?
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Serena
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GMA apparently hasn't lived through one. It is not a myth, and I am not a watcher (spelled i.d.i.o.t.).
When we got hit, those homes with the front and rear windows open stood. Those that didn't, didn't. My mother had woken up just a couple of minutes before it hit. She felt it coming. She'd been in a couple before. She had maybe a minute or two. She ran to wake everyone and opened windows as she went. She made it to the front bedroom in time to wake my father and grab the two little ones sleeping in there. They were out of time. My father grabbed the mattress and covered everyone with it. She didn't get to the windows.
When the twister hit the front of the house, a brick building, the windows in that front bedroom blew in on them at about 80 MPH. When it was over, the house had been taken up off its foundation. A jagged piece of glass about 14 or 15" long and maybe 6 or 7" wide had been driven straight down through my mother's pillow into the box springs where her head had been not 3 minutes earlier. I was in the next room in the direction away from the onslaught and watched it all from bed through the window. Despite what you saw in the movies, there is no sound. The wind carries it away before it can reach your ears. It's like watching a silent movie of a bomb exploding.
We were back to pick up what few belongings we could and to survey the neighborhood a few days later. Those in the center of the path were destroyed, and the windows didn't matter. Those outside the center of the path of destruction stood or fell PRECISELY in a pattern consistent with having open or closed windows. That wind is running in a spiral pattern, so you can't predict which surface will be hit or grabbed from which angle. What you DO know are three things -
1) wind will pass through any object that doesn't provide resistance, and
2) you DON'T want glass shattering at 70 or 80 MPH + in your face. Any cop, EMT, or ER personnel can tell you that! They know.
3) Think about how that works - wind is like water in that a drop doesn't do much, but a tsunami has speed AND force. You offer resistance, you get even more concentrated power accumulated against that resistance. Don't be that resistance. You don't want to feel that force.
Now I know how my mother knew without looking. You can feel them coming well before you see them. I called one years later in the middle of Cerritos, CA in the mid-eighties - possibly the most unlikely place you could imagine. I was in a glass building with several hundred people at ADP's regional headquarters there. The hundred or so within earshot thought I was spreading a 'myth', too. Those were glass walls - no way to open them. I bailed instantly - one of the probably few times when running is the right thing to do. No regrets! That was NOT a building to be caught in. They did not get hit, fortunately. But at least 2 twisters touched down within blocks.
Let's put it this way - leaving your windows closed definitely does NOT help and could prove fatal. At best, their advice might convince the unknowing to seek shelter faster and not become a statistic because they lingered too long opening the windows. Notice that statistics are only used when a thing is NOT a sure bet, even if it looks good on the chart that keeps the funding flowing. And they do not account for your immediate situation at all. It goes like this: A) our statistics are fab, we're on a roll, give us more money; or else B) our statistics are junk, we need more study, give us more money.
I'm not a number or a budget. And I know what I know. If not _thoroughly_ familiar with a shelter less that 100 feet away, I'll take windows open, jacks up, side of the bed away from approach, under the mattress. Pray. Hard. Hope you land on the right side of the grass.
Mrs. Mik wrote:Serena wrote:That's what I keep saying - open the windows, open the windows, open the windows! When that glass implodes, you don't want to be there. It's a wall of air - it'll pass right through if it can, and knock your place down if it can't. I notice it rolled right over the Airstream - gotta love the name all over again. And it nailed the trailers with the slides sticking out. But it left the cars, apparently.
According to GMA, opening the windows during a tornado is a myth:
Quote:What if you are in your home when a tornado is coming? For decades, people were told to open doors and windows to equalize pressure to prevent the building from exploding. It is advice tornado watchers have been trying to put to rest for years.
"It's more important to take shelter than try open or close windows, because that's not going to make a difference if a tornado hits," said Metz. "It's going to blow those windows apart anyway."
"A tornado will very efficiently open those windows for you," Willenburg added.
Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Weather/Story?id=4664381&page=3
Julie
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