We get pretty high winds here. Earlier this year a windgust moved our Weber BBQ with a 30 lbs. bottle of gas, from the deck and dumped in the yard. Our hybrid did not suffer any damage. In all our years camping, all over the U.S. and Canada, we have never suffered any loss due to weather. But we do keep the insurance paid up.
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husker 2 wrote: I was raised and spent 40 yrs in the midwest. My DW and I have twice had our homes damaged or destroyed by tornados, weathered severe hail storms, blizzards, and just plain old wind. Dec 31,1982 New Years Eve the wind chill factor was 68 degrees below zero.
I now live in the NW and don't worry about earth quakes.
Just came back from the midwest 23 days and 4200 miles. Dodged gully washer downpours, hail, and yes tornados. RV park evacuated. You wont' catch me in the OK,KS,NE tornado alley in May-June if I can in any way avoid it.
Toss TN in there. A tornado hit the Nacho Campground last month. Next stop would have been my house if the tornado had stayed on the ground.
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dbbls wrote: It seems that people who are not from the mid-west have a fear of severe weather. What must the news report about weather here? I have lived in Missouri all my life and have survived just fine. Don't worry, your RV is not going to blow away. Just keep your insurance paid up just like you probably do where you are now.
I can answer this one as a lifelong southern California resident. Remember we only really have the news to get our information from. Also use of the internet as it is today is only about 15 years old. So in reality all I really have to go off of is the news. And apparently good happy news doesn't make money.
So I mean no offense by this but here's what I think about when I think midwest. Ok actually anything east of Arizona.
Golf ball sized hail is going to come down and brain me. A tornado is going to come through and kill me. A bolt of lightning is going to fry me. A hurricane is going to blow me away. A river is going to overflow and wash my body away.
Here in California I have to worry about an earthquake I've been through quite a few of those and I rarely even wake up anymore.
I can see myself asking the same question as the OP. It may not be right or accurate, but it's the picture that our media has painted.
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We had a bad storm come through a few months ago. I don't know if it was a tornado, it could have been a strong microburst. The neighbor building his house across the street had a fifth wheel parked on his lot. It was blown on its side. Mine was parked along the side of the house, so I guess it was protected. The tongue of my boat trailer was moved a few feet over. Another neighbor had a pop up parked on his property while clearing off his lot. It was extended and it ended up OK. It was parked next to the trees, so it was protected as well. As far as precautions go, I don't take any. I kind of wish mine had been blown over. It is fully insured and I'm looking to get a bigger TT.
freetobeme wrote: Well Husker2 and Bamabound, thanks for your reply! Being retired military we have traveled to lots of great and not so great places. I like the saying "bloom where you are planted"! We had to leave Washington as the cool damp weather was really messing with the titanium in DH spine and we are very happy to be in the midwest. The folks are very friendly, the scenery is beautiful and I agree my question was a bit silly. No matter where we live, we all have something to contend with and when our turn comes up it matters not where we are living. I was curious more than anything as I thought and ounce of prevention might be worth a pound of cure! I think my folks taught me that many years ago. LOL
"do" some more damage, saw my typo and had to fix it..lol
I must add if damp weather bothers your DH's spine then our humidity would give her pain as well as the pressure change before the bad storms. I'm starting to see why people head for dry climates.
I think storms happen in many places but just do not make the 6 pm news. Tonight is our third night out and we are parked in front Frankfort KY the capital tonight for an 8 am visit in the morning and had to deal with storm damages comeing in from Cincinnati. Coming into Frankfort this evening on a narrow road we would have hit the business end of a limb about the side of my wrist that was in the edge of the road from the storm/flooding last night.
Tuesday morning we woke to as bad of a storm I have ever witnessed in the parking lot of the Children's Museum in Indianapolis IN. It was so bad we where a hour late getting inside after sleeping in the parking lot. Luckly we narrrowly missed the KY storm because we were in the Newport Aquarium parking lot last night and only got a shower. Just a little south at the Creation Museum near the Cincinnati airport they had a flood so we just missed that storm.
An adjuster we were planning to meet later this week in the Lexington KY area tonight said he may be tied working storm claims in Louisville. At least unlike quakes, etc with storms you can know before they appear often the risk is high.
Like others have said there are just risks out there. It really is strange to see rivers out of their banks the first week in August. I-74 was flooded out mid way between Indianapolis and Cincinnati on Tuesday morning. We are still having a blast in the middle to storms this week.
Bamabound: I'm sorry I guess you just missed the jest of my post. In Washington we have cool damp weather on the coast about 11 months of the year and yeah there is some "pressure" there too. In Missouri the warmth and humidity actually is feeling pretty good to my "Dear Husband's" back. Warmth has always been very theraputic. We really weren't asking where we should live, just wanting a little friendly advice (which for the most part was given) I think we have pretty much beat this topic up. Thanks for all those who gave positive or thoughtful insight to the question I asked.
Freetobeme - Amazing how fast they go off-topic, huh!
I think your question is/was a good one - maybe you just needed to expand
on "secure" your RV. Looked like common sense suggestions wanted.
I'm not superstitious - but I don't walk under ladders.
Seen too many pick-headed axes dropped from them, LOL!
Black cats are OK - unless they're REALLY big uns.
As to the earthquakes in CA . . . . have lots of pics of waterspout damage (overturned 40' mobile homes, "stick house" roofs torn off) from one that came ashore about 35 miles North of San Diego. (HB, CA).
Some of this was 1-2 miles inland (my neighborhood!).
My trailers live outside. Snow, rain, wind - in national news amounts - and they've yet to suffer any serious damage. They're both parked on the south side of the barn, and the wind blows from the N and NE, so they're somewhat protected. I am proactive at keeping the roof and windows sealed, so our annual 100+ inches of rain isn't a problem, unless someone leaves a hatch open - oops. And last year, we had 4' of snow. I didn't even shovel them off (too busy shoveling off the house and barn). They're covered and away from the trees. No damage yet. On the other hand, friends in Colorado have had hail damage to their covered trailer three times.
dbbls wrote: It seems that people who are not from the mid-west have a fear of severe weather. What must the news report about weather here? I have lived in Missouri all my life and have survived just fine. Don't worry, your RV is not going to blow away. Just keep your insurance paid up just like you probably do where you are now.
I can answer this one as a lifelong southern California resident. Remember we only really have the news to get our information from. Also use of the internet as it is today is only about 15 years old. So in reality all I really have to go off of is the news. And apparently good happy news doesn't make money.
So I mean no offense by this but here's what I think about when I think midwest. Ok actually anything east of Arizona.
Golf ball sized hail is going to come down and brain me. A tornado is going to come through and kill me. A bolt of lightning is going to fry me. A hurricane is going to blow me away. A river is going to overflow and wash my body away.
Here in California I have to worry about an earthquake I've been through quite a few of those and I rarely even wake up anymore.
I can see myself asking the same question as the OP. It may not be right or accurate, but it's the picture that our media has painted.
I agree with OPNSPACES. Having fulltimed in a motorhome in Southern CA for about 17 yrs weather was virtually never a problem. Earthquakes? Never worried about them since one of the safest places a person could be is in an RV (they're made to move, ya know). When an earthquake hits it's like being on a boat in an ocean, but there is zero damage.
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I've been through quite a few of those and I rarely even wake up anymore. 
