Campground Shelters
After seeing This video from The Weather Channel, I am curious at how many campgrounds in "Tornado Alley" have shelters in place. In my opinion, every campground where tornadoes frequent should have a...
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Jim Shoe wrote:
I was doing an overnight at a KOA in southern GA. The owners went to each RV in the park, told us about a tornado watch in the area, explained that both the restroom/showers were reinforced concrete shelters and invited everyone into their office/game room area to ride it out. No tornado, but a very bad storm. The owner had a weather radio going and unlocked the Coke machine. We sat around and told stories until the danger passed. When I left the next morning, I could see where the storm/tornado crossed the road about 10 miles away. That's customer service.
I had the same thing happen while on a trip to the Winnebago Grand Rally. We stopped at a place in Iowa and a little while later, the CG owner came by and told us that we were about to get a storm, and the shelter was the bathhouse. Not being from a tornado area, I chuckled a little, thanked her and went about my business. It's only a rain storm, right?
Soon you could see the storm front coming. I suggested to the wife that we get the rain gear out "just in case" we decided to go to the bathhouse/shelter. Two minutes later the storm hit and I swear that I felt the motorhome move sideways. :E
I grabbed the dog and we bolted for the shelter, where a bunch of other wide eyed pilgrims had already gathered. Fifteen minutes later the event was over. It wasn't a tornado, but I think it was darn close to one.
The next morning I had the chance to see the CG owner and remarked to her about how violent the storm was and thanked her for giving everyone advanced warning. She replied " You should be here when we have a real storm" I think, no.
