Popsie
Livingston, TX, USA
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Pictures don't lie - do they?
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bsinmich
Holland, MI
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Wind does strange things. We had all the siding taken off the house, a storage shed in the back yard taken to the neighbor's yard but the grass seed and all the other items that were on a table were all still in place where the shed had been. I got that phone call when we were in Pottsville, PA. My daughter said she had good news and bad news. We had plastic fenders on my car, She could still drive with a broken arm, and a tornado had gone down our street. The good news was that she could still drive. We made it home in one day to NE Detroit.
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gbopp
The Keystone State
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Maybe the trucker left his rig at home and took the Class A and got out of the area when the storm was coming? 
It is a terrible loss, I hope no one was hurt.
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JRS & B
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I'm thinking the motorhome showed up after the wind was gone. Both the toad and another vehicle are also upright. That seems unlikely, especially since they would have both taken the same broadside hit as the overturned truck.
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Francesca Knowles
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Agree with the two next-previous posts- who would park a motorhome where it appears in that picture unless it arrived AFTER the damage was done?
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jassrnj
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Another reason to have a RV. You can get out of danger and when you return you have a place to stay.
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wny_pat
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Semi-trailers blow over very easy when they are empty. Good strong wind gust will do it. Don't need a tornado for that!
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wny_pat
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jassrnj wrote:Another reason to have a RV. You can get out of danger and when you return you have a place to stay. Never try to outrun a tornado in a RV!!! Get into proper shelter right away! They move to fast, its not like a hurricane where you have advance notice.
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Old-Biscuit
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wny_pat wrote:jassrnj wrote:Another reason to have a RV. You can get out of danger and when you return you have a place to stay. Never try to outrun a tornado in a RV!!! Get into proper shelter right away! They move to fast, its not like a hurricane where you have advance notice.
True....but you can also see a storm front moving say from Gulf area traveling N/E and if in upper MS/AL/TN etc. one can move N/W---S/E---N or E and in a few hours be out of the projected path.
What do you think us FT'ers do.....put our head in the sand. Although have done that too when storm track wasn't projected in time, a deep depression is safer than being in the RV.
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univmd
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Yes a "Class A MH is safer than a house" because it is easier for the tornado to pick it up in one piece and land it safely on the wicked witch of the east.
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