East Coast Gathering of Bus-Folk

[tobeamiss]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

Man we had some of the crazy weather here this evening. Tornado warnings and all the right conditions.

I saw that warning on the weather channel yesterday while at work. That's scary stuff! I thought about you all.

[oricha1984]

Left just in time

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[tobeamiss]

Awsome!!!! That's scary stuff especially in a Skoolie! I would definitely have a panic attack!

[EastCoastCB]

We were out about to put the new batteries in the bus when it got really bad really quickly.

[cadillackid]

that same system blasted through here the other night.. the blow-torch effect hit us in ohio yesterday with a high of 68 when the normal is 35... made it nice for doing a few things to the bus before I drive it to florida.. im waiting a day or two as now all along I75 is supposed to be 35-45 MPH winds today / tromorrow.. I definitely dont want to do that drive again like I did in november where I drove a skoolie through winds like that.. RedByrd is lighter than DEV so it would get blown around easier..

-Christopher

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

Man we had some of the crazy weather here this evening. Tornado warnings and all the right conditions.

I drove through it coming from D.C.... drove 14 hours straight through from D.C. to home, staying, literally, a mile or two ahead of it... no cops on I-95 in FL we all hauled ass.

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by tobeamiss

Awsome!!!! That's scary stuff especially in a Skoolie! I would definitely have a panic attack!

The storm crossed my part of FL around 1 a.m.... this skoolie was rocking for all the wrong reasons! But I slept like a baby!

Sandi
www.thismidwifetravels.com

[brokedown]

It was pretty loud! But we only got rain in short spurts. The wind was pretty constant whistling through the gaps...

[tobeamiss]

Originally Posted by WanderWoman

The storm crossed my part of FL around 1 a.m.... this skoolie was rocking for all the wrong reasons! But I slept like a baby!

Sandi
www.thismidwifetravels.com

Wow, rocking!!! I wouldn't be sleeping.... No way no how! Now don't get me wrong, I'm no wussy but until i get used to living in my skoolie full-time it's gonna be a little weird.
Kudos to you!

[EastCoastCB]

We weathered the storm in a double wide trailer. Not much fun in tornado conditions.
Thing was shaking and the wind noise was crazy.

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

We weathered the storm in a double wide trailer. Not much fun in tornado conditions.
Thing was shaking and the wind noise was crazy.

It was a pretty scary night! Just south of us a high school sustained more than a million dollars in damage from a F1 tornado.

Sandi
www.thismidwifetravels.com

[brokedown]

We were lucky to be between the bands of storms. It was nasty an hour north of an hour south, but not so bad for us. I did briefly think about turning the bus 90 degrees so that the wind wouldn't be hitting us broad side, but then I remembered that I was lazy.

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by brokedown

We were lucky to be between the bands of storms. It was nasty an hour north of an hour south, but not so bad for us. I did briefly think about turning the bus 90 degrees so that the wind wouldn't be hitting us broad side, but then I remembered that I was lazy.

I face the north and along my west side (just 18" away) is a tall line of bushes (taller than the bus), so it buffeted some of the wind. But we had sustained winds for about 25 minutes of 40 mph and some higher gusts... made for a fun night!

Sandi
www.thismidwifetravels.com

[EastCoastCB]

This one hit REALLY close to home. As in- our neighborhood and the one I grew up in.
Tornadoes kill at least 19 in Florida - CNN.com
I was supposed to move in to a rental property with a trailer on it. There was a glitch and I was denied. A week after I was to move in this deadly tornado took out the entire block except a few addresses. The neighbors that would have been across the street from the rental place had a converted school bus some of them lived on. It was completely blown away and gone.
It LEVELED the local hurricane shelter. A steel framed church.
A brick house at the end of our block was completely gone- all that remained of it was the slab and one toilet. Was an F3 tornado. Hit at around 3 am so virtually no one had any warning or saw it coming at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_G...rnado_outbreak

I THINK this is the exact street that rental trailer was on-

Me, the girlfriend at the time, and her 3 year old would have been in that had my credit score not come back wrong!

Here's what was left of our shelter-

[Tango]

Having observed the paths and effects of various weather phenomena for the past six or seven decades...I am absolutely, 100% convinced that there is some kind of electromagnetic field generated by a group of trailers that attracts tornadoes.

Just sayin'.

[milkmania]

Don't let your guard down... The wind is shifting.
It's 9:35pm in Oklahoma/Arkansas and 63° right now, not sure what it got up to today, but it was pretty danged warm...
They're calling for highs in the mid-40's tomorrow!

[WanderWoman]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

This one hit REALLY close to home. As in- our neighborhood and the one I grew up in.
Tornadoes kill at least 19 in Florida - CNN.com
I was supposed to move in to a rental property with a trailer on it. There was a glitch and I was denied. A week after I was to move in this deadly tornado took out the entire block except a few addresses. The neighbors that would have been across the street from the rental place had a converted school bus some of them lived on. It was completely blown away and gone.
It LEVELED the local hurricane shelter. A steel framed church.
A brick house at the end of our block was completely gone- all that remained of it was the slab and one toilet. Was an F3 tornado. Hit at around 3 am so virtually no one had any warning or saw it coming at all.

I'm sure glad your credit score was wrong! What a mess! I was working out of the country and had no idea this happened! My mom was in Levy County at the time. Wow!

Sandi
www.thismidwifetravels.com

[superdave]

60 and sunny here today, gota get the windows on the drivers side painted tonight.is that preacher thanking god, love that!

[cadillackid]

gonna be partly cloudy and 53 here in ohio today.. good time for me to get the dash air gauge and the lights in the switch panel replaced.. been driving RedByrd around as a daily driver for the last few days and no coolant issues so far..

looks like its going to be making the trip from Ohio to FL friday / saturday.

I might even be able to get up and take a stab at Flex-shotting the Hatch seal.. I notice I get some water in.. it worked on DEV so i'll try it on this one..

-Christopher

[EastCoastCB]

The weather here today was BEAUTIFUL after an unusual morning fog.