Hurricanes + RVs = Bad Juju (Cut n Paste) From Texas

I hope not too many folks got hurt.

That hokey TV wall mount bracket held up.

Bad news for sure! If you try to leave you may blow away, yet if you stay put you may float away. Tough situation.

I assume the red X is emergency services has checked it for occupants.

I don't even remember how many hurricanes I have been through as I was born in Florida in 1939. With or without an RV, the issue is deciding if or when to go and then what direction to take. The darn things will follow you for 100's of miles and sometimes go out to sea and double back. Several years ago we left one in Florida, flew from Atlanta to Newark where we were delayed because it was coming up the east coast. We finally flew to Scotland and less than a week later it slammed us there! We have lost trees and roofs, had the power out for weeks, been flooded up to the front porch, but never suffered any injuries or lasting damage. My heart breaks for the folks in TX I wish I could help. lizzie

Quicksilver is anchored with six concrete filled 10x20 junk tires buried three feet deep*. Chains to the surface. Bus sits on eight 5 ton jackstands on a concrete pad. Big Rig ratchet straps bind the bus frame to the jack stands via pulling the buried tires upward. This is the family's hurricane hole if push comes to blow. Dual sandwich 16 gauge steel and federal rollover specs make School Buses heavy but durable.

A backhoe was hired. The same guy who moved the batteries and genset.

Nevertheless, I still fear hurricanes and tornadoes.

I hope nobody gets hurt.

I'm glad we only visit the US when the weather has calmed down. Unfortunately pretty soon we'll have winter hurricanes and tornadoes.

pianotuna wrote:
I hope not too many folks got hurt.

Yet there were many pictures of RV's moved sideways and many that appeared to not have moved or been damaged in the Rockport/Fulton area. Vietnam buddy from Kansas winters in Fulton. Has a park model in a local campground and I suspect it is toast.

Anyone who may be going to the Fulton/Rockport area? I would appreciate a PM.

lizzie wrote:
I don't even remember how many hurricanes I have been through as I was born in Florida in 1939. With or without an RV, the issue is deciding if or when to go and then what direction to take.
The

darn things will follow you for 100's of miles and sometimes go out to sea and double back

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X10 !
A few years back a friend of mine who lives in Ft Lauderdale, FL
had to evacuate for a hurricane. (Can't remember the name of the hurricane.}

He loaded up the kids, wife and dogs and the inlaws
and headed to Punta Gorda where he parked the MH at
a friends house to be safe and out of harms way.


Well....At the last minute the darn hurricane changed
it's path and hit Punta Gorda straight on.
Can't begin to tell you how ticked off he was!
Still talks/complains about to this day.