rockhillmanor
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Well I gotta tell you all I am not ashamed to say I am butt scared.
This from a 'new' full-timer in a home with OUT a basement to take cover. Sure is a new 'very' uncomfortable, lack of control feeling.
Since Friday we have had 6 tornado warnings and torrential down pours for 3 days straight.
Tonight 2 towns on either side of the CG, sirens are blaring. I started to pack up the dogs and go for the truck to take off for better cover, but looking at the radar leaving in any direction wasn't any safer.
So I put the dogs in smaller crates and put the mattress over them, in case the wonderful half dead trees over my MH decide to come crashing down.
I have been waffling about California because of the earthquakes and fires, but if we make thru tonight I think I'll take the quakes and fires any day, at least with the fires you can pack up and head in the opposite direction.
Soon as that toad gets its base plate put on I'm outta here.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Scottiemom
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rockhillmanor, Where are you?
Dale
Dale Pace
Wife to Terry (Teacher's Pet)
Mom to 2 rescued Scotties
Bailey and Neal
2006 Tiffin Phaeton 40' QSH, 4 slides (Phaeton Place)
2003 Sport Trac Toad
Fulltiming since retiring in 2005
http://www.skoolzoutforever.blogspot.com/
Where are we?
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rockhillmanor
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Scottiemom wrote:rockhillmanor, Where are you?Dale
Just east of the Great Lakes, state line area.
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Hiker3
Florida
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Sorry to hear it. Understand completely.
Livin Lite Quicksilver 8.0 (Folding Tent Camper) only 900 lbs!
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Scottiemom
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Having lived in Indiana all my life, I fully understand what you are going through. All I can say is stay safe and keep your weather radio tuned in.
Dale
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kknowlton
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Yep, we're all getting it. It's no better in your old home area either. Lots of severe t-storms and a few tornadoes up here in the last 2-3 days, with more to come. Hang in there - stay safe!
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rockhillmanor
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They say one touched down in Basset. The Gov just declared quite a few counties disaster areas, a lot due to the flooding too. We have a raging river going thru the CG.
I think my panic attack comes from the visual I still have of my neighbors homes or lack thereof, when I came up from the basement of my house back in January when those tornado's hit my road.
Here's a funny to lighten things up......
Yesterday when the sirens went off I was doing laundry at the CG and the manager came out and said to be safe and she thought it would be a good idea if it got really bad I could always go "under my MH"!
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Economical Handyman
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Hang in there and the best of luck to you.
I was in Iowa for the last 10 days and did not enjoy that weather.
Friday I drove 1148 miles (in the car) from Kansas to home to get out of it. I'll take the quakes any day!
DeWayne & Judy
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It is hard to kiss the lips at night, that has chewed your butt all day long!
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ReadyToGo!
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We live in Omaha, and there was a tornado here last night.
After about 9 hours without power, we turned on the tv when the power returned and they said that there had been a tornado, and that it had hit a Wal-Mart. We suddenly realized the Wal-Mart was only about 2 blocks from the storage lot where we keep the TT.
When we went to the storage lot to check on things, it was a very strange sight: There wasn’t a scratch on our TT. However, the TT parked alongside of it had been picked up and slammed back down in the same place. It was in exactly the same place… the only way you could tell anything had happened to it was that the tongue was sitting on the concrete. The wood blocks that the tongue had been sitting on were scattered, and so were the wheel chocks. It was pretty wild – that trailer was beside ours with only 3-4 feet between them!
It was something else to look around that lot – you’d see one trailer with a window blown out sitting right next to one that was fine. There was another one that was picked up and slammed down – that one was at the end of a row with nothing on one side of it, and it had been turned about 30 degrees toward the empty space – and it also had the tongue down on the ground with the wood blocks and wheel chocks a few feet from the trailer.
I never knew tornado damage could be so uneven among almost identical objects sitting so close together!
Needless to say, we are very, very happy and relieved!
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Skid Row Joe
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We had them in Omaha Sunday morning.....sirens went off three seperate times at 2:30 a.m. At the very least reports of heavy winds taking off tree branches left and right. Haven't been hit by a tornado where I lived ever, but having basements for most homes is a plus. A tornado went up 72nd St. one afternoon in the late '70s, killing one person in a rest room at a filling station near 74th & Pacific. It began near 84th & I-80 in Westgate moving right up 72nd, and lifted near our apartment buildings located near 67th & Blondo. We were close, but safe out in Rockbrook. It was devastating damage.
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