gjleno
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What do you fulltimers do when you are in a campground and severe weather is coming. Do you just ride it out, leave, or just put another shrimp on the barby.
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DianneOK
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In that case we head for the nearest designated shelter. Our fiver would not be the best place to ride out nasty weather.
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ladymc53
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Years ago in our pop up we were camped next to the concrete bathrooms. A really severe thunderstorm with tornadoes came through and we all jumped in the bathrooms. Felt a lot safer and I think we actually were. This past week we were camping and were told by the rangers at the s.p. to go to the bathrooms because severe weather was headed our way. We left before it hit and were home, but that was their recommendation.
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skipnchar
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Severe weather comes in all shapes and sizes. The kind that is starting to look like it'll be around THIS year isn't the kind it's wise to ignore. A few wind gusts or some marble sized hail is one thing but when it's tornados you're talking about you BETTER be finding a shelter or riding a big "lucky streak" 
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skipnchar wrote:Severe weather comes in all shapes and sizes. The kind that is starting to look like it'll be around THIS year isn't the kind it's wise to ignore. A few wind gusts or some marble sized hail is one thing but when it's tornados you're talking about you BETTER be finding a shelter or riding a big "lucky streak"
Like Skip said. Otherwise throw on another shrimp! 
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Southwind85
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I close the windows so the rain won't get in then sit back and enjoy the show.
If it's looking like tornado weather and you see me zoom past toward the exit, you'd be best advised to follow...or hide.
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alwims
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We just grab a beer and set back and watch it go by.
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Hurricanes and thunderstorms - we ride it out, tornado don't know we try to be where they aren't so don't have much experience with them. Did see one once when we were trucking off in the distance - put the hammer down and got on down the road.
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southbound
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For all of you who just say ride it out I wish you could see the pictures of campground at a Georgia county park. Those people were very lucky that someone was listening to a weather alert radio at 4:30am and heard that a severe thunderstorm was headed their way with the possiblility of a tornado. He alerted his neighbors and in turn they alertered others and they all ran to a stone bathhourse. No one was hurt but when the tornado was over there were trees fallen all over the majority of the trailers and motor homes. It took almost a full morning to get people in there to help them.
I feel that each park, campground should have someone that monitors the storm situation 24/7. We carry a weather alert radio and a battery t.v.
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Carolyn&Keith
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We've had one brush with a tornado in west Texas in April '07. We were in a little town park, nobody there but us. Fortunately, we had lived a few years in Nebraska and had a clue what "tornado sky" looks like. I told my husband to check the National Weather Service station on our cb, and sure enough, there was a tornado headed our way due in 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!! We didn't have time to do anything except get ourselves into the hundred year old bathhouse. Fortunately, that tornado turned just about then, but we now pay a bit more attention to those kind of things, but we also try to stay out of Tornado Alley in the spring time.
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