This one is sort of directed to Mbok. Do you think the weight of the trailer is equivalent to the mph of the wind multiplied by the number of pigeons in the tree?
I'd leave it hooked to the truck and face it in the direction I thought the wind would be coming from with all the jacks down, it might even help to put some blocks under the frame to the ground. Keep in mind the wind will change as the storm passes by.
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If our fiver was sitting in our Florida backyard when a hurricane came through -- anything above a cat. 1 storm, which has winds of 74 mph, I would expect to find it in pieces. Frank is correct, you cannot protect an RV in a hurricane. A tropical storm, probably.
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I know this is probably too late to help the OP, but we survived Ivan (low Cat. 4) and a solid eye-wall hit by keeping our Jazz fifth wheel hooked to the truck, tanks filled, facing east (you can make a good estimate), and a large nylon towing strap round the bumper and anchored to lag bolts screwed into the root of a big tree. There was tremendous damage here but the fiver was unscathed (a big limb fell and crashed the truck hood).
Evacuating is not always the best course. You can get stuck in the evac. traffic (ala Opal in Pensacola in '95, or Katrina) which is the absolute worst thing that can happen. The loving authorities may not let you back in. Unless you live in a low-lying area close to the coast, you are usually better to shelter in place, and that includes taking pains to secure your RVs. They are more useful AFTER the storm blows over if you can keep them intact.
If your unable to tie down to tree, or some firm anchors. Tractor supply and other similar stores have anchors which can be buried into the soil. Couple of those should help from direct side winds. Unless its a strong hurricane. I would thing it should survive w/o damage unless something is blown into it.
Those rigs face some very strong winds while being towed. Granted, its to the front of the rig however many are subjected to heavy cross winds. You figure, many have probably been towed at time near 70 mph add 30 or 40 mph headwinds or side winds and those rigs survive w/o any issues.
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