considering full time
Hello fellow RVers and Merry Christmas. We are considering going full time for about a year or so. Here is our situation. We currently rent a duplex and want to buy a house in a more rural area. What ...
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PapaNIes60 wrote:
Great feed back! We certainly love to travel and visit our national treasures as well. Bad weather is always a concern for us as we live in Oklahoma and we have found that most all Federal and State parks, in our region, have a designated structure to take shelter in should the need arise. However I would like to hear from some others on that subject.
We were in El Reno in November (have family there) when a storm blew through. Up 60 MPH winds - because they were hitting us on the side, we pulled the slide on that side to save the slide topper. It wasn't the ice storm - we moved on before that hit. That is the great thing about living in a home with wheels - we move before the big ones hit.
We have ridden out blizzards, 70 mph winds, haboobs, hail, lots and lots of rain. No tornadoes yet, though we did see one form in Missouri. We tend to spend more time watching the weather than S&B people do, looking out for heat waves, cold spells, and storms. We have managed to avoid the worst. This summer, we were chased around Alaska by wildfires - something else to keep in mind.
We have, more than once, left a campsite early, even though it was paid for, to avoid really bad weather. But our thought is that $20-30 a night isn't worth risking our house and our lives. We have rerouted on the fly due to forecasted weather - we missed the storms and flooding in central Texas by routing up through Oklahoma. Sometimes it adds miles but, since we don't have any place we have to be...
