RV's in a storm

I get off the road and parked, keeping trailer hooked up and with slightly aerodynamically superior nose of the tug pointed into the wind. Just like a boat. Of course, winds in my camping country are for the most part predictably directional, not all swirly like a tornado.

For tornado survival I guess I'd unhook and take my chances that my little fiberglass trailer would just do a tumbleweed act with me in it, eventually to emerge Shaken but Unhurt- just like happened to this guy in a 13 foot Scamp last year! :E

News story wrote:
HICKMAN, Neb. — Jim Stoddard’s world started spinning. Then it twisted, tumbled and turned upside down.

A tornado skipping across eastern Nebraska on Thursday night shook Stoddard around the inside of his little trailer. The twister tossed the vehicle across a campground like a pinball as trees crashed down around him.

“It was wild!’’ Stoddard said Friday. “I’m a happy man. I’m not a happy camper, but I’m a happy man. I’m alive.’’

Stoddard’s camper was heavily damaged by the tornado that struck Wagon Trail Lake State Recreation Area near Hickman. It was the first of a one-two punch of tornadoes that hit eastern Nebraska in a 24-hour period Thursday and Friday.

The Thursday tornado bounced across the countryside near Hickman, Bennet and Palmyra for nearly an hour, starting about 10 p.m. It was rated an EF2, with winds of 111 to 135 mph. It destroyed two large recreational vehicles at Wagon Train Lake,......snip......The lightweight trailer started spinning, then flipped and rolled up an embankment. “Then it nose-dived,’’ Stoddard said. The trailer hitch caught in the ground, sending the camper end over end.“We came down the hill, rolling one way or another,’’ Stoddard said. “I lost track.’’

The trailer traveled about 150 feet in a U-shape path before coming to rest in the ditch — the same one that Stoddard had planned to flee to moments earlier.