Tornado Hit RV Park in Louisiana
Wow. A tornado hit the Sugar Hill RV Park in Convent, Louisiana. This underscores the importance of getting an early warning and knowing where there the storm shelter is in an RV park during a severe ...
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cmcdar wrote:
What a tragedy!
This is my first year snow birding in Florida. Back in January I was in a COE park in Southern Georgia. There was a tornado watch for our area. I learned of the watch around midnight from an app I have for my Android phone.
We planned to head for the restrooms with pets if the updated reports became more severe.
At six the 5:30 am a knock came on our door. It was the camp host alerting us (albeit late) of the watch and instructing us to head to the restrooms if the weather got worse.
My question is do most places have someplace safe to shelter in? Is there some common system used in most camp grounds to alert campers or are you left to your own devices?
No they don't. :(
When If first started out full timing I must admit I hadn't given that aspect much thought, until.....my first CG where a tornado touched down clipping the row behind me. The CG had NO emergency shelter or designated place to go.
Since then I ask upon check in where an emergency shelter is located on the grounds. Most CG's, the only place is, is the bathroom building which is usually made of block.
At a dog show venue CG in Gray Summit, MO we were under a tornado warning and when we asked where the shelter was they said the bathroom building.
BUT, NO pets where allowed!! Yea right just try and stop us from taking our pets with us.
The CG was at "Purina" Farms.....go figure. :R
