Severe thunderstorms- do we need to lower the TV antenna?
First trip with our TT and, of course we are under severe thunderstorm warnings. We have a crank up TV antenna. Do we need to lower it?
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What dows "severe thunderstorms" mean where you are located.
Here, I lower than antenna and pull in the slideouts, because it can mean straight winds exceeding gale force, and gusts over 80 MPH. That is enough to bend an extended antenna, get under slideouts and awnings, and tumble some lighter RVs. To say nothing to having trees fall on you, been through that too.
Generally if severe thunderstorms are forecast for someplace, I will try to be someplace else, if I am in my RV. I've cancelled some campouts on forecast. Last may, tornadoes ripped through the park we would have been in, and I was happy that I had cancelled.
Other places in the country, forecasters might call lesser storms severe; here on the plains it means hunker down in the storm shelter.
Here, I lower than antenna and pull in the slideouts, because it can mean straight winds exceeding gale force, and gusts over 80 MPH. That is enough to bend an extended antenna, get under slideouts and awnings, and tumble some lighter RVs. To say nothing to having trees fall on you, been through that too.
Generally if severe thunderstorms are forecast for someplace, I will try to be someplace else, if I am in my RV. I've cancelled some campouts on forecast. Last may, tornadoes ripped through the park we would have been in, and I was happy that I had cancelled.
Other places in the country, forecasters might call lesser storms severe; here on the plains it means hunker down in the storm shelter.
