Blow-overs - Event Date: 29 Apr 2014 - 01 Jun 2014 |
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yellowstonestu
Groupie Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Location: Colorado Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
Calendar Event: Blow-overs Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 5:11pm |
Thanks for the personal thoughts! Yes, they and their dogs are o.k. The truck is driveable and they returned home to the mtns of CO minus the brand new 5th wheel. Brand new truck bed now is rather "v" shaped on the side where the 5th wheel rolled over.
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Yellowstonestu & Bela the Vizsla
2008 Toyota FJ 2015 RPod 179 (Pod #2) |
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 2:29pm |
I have seen reports, and a few pictures of many RV's blown over. Couple years ago after the Airstream Int'l up in Montana (I think), a couple owners got blown over or off the road on the way home.
As far as the linked podstruction.. it has a license plate.. and I note a dish towel over a drawer pull... but not a whole lot else like sheets, sleeping bags, dishes, etc etc... possibly new owners who got "caught out" as they say. |
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fwunder
Senior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 1676 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 2:22pm |
Yeah P&M, that was my guess too. I am shopping for a nice portable weather radio though. Just this past camping weekend we had no cell/internet service and was caught off guard a bit with some very cold and windy weather.
fred
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2014 RPod 178 => MyMods and Buying Habits
2008 4Runner Limited 4.0-liter V6 Yes, those are wild ponies dining on grass while dumping tanks! |
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P&M
Senior Member Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Location: Spokane, WA Online Status: Offline Posts: 454 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 2:20pm |
Given the lack of personal effects within the Pod destruction itself, I'm gonna guess it happened during factory transport. Poor little Pod.
Mental note ... pull over and wait out any really bad side-wind storms!
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P & M ... and Comet too!
2012 171 -- The Monkey Pod 2018 Ram 2500 |
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fwunder
Senior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 1676 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 2:12pm |
Be fore warned. This is not a pretty picture. No people, but lots of podestruction. I know nothing of the circumstances, although I could guess it may have fell off a delivery truck or a tornado or such. Sorta looks like tornado geography. Nevertheless...it can happen.
fred
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2014 RPod 178 => MyMods and Buying Habits
2008 4Runner Limited 4.0-liter V6 Yes, those are wild ponies dining on grass while dumping tanks! |
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kymooses
Senior Member Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Louisville, Ky Online Status: Offline Posts: 1807 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 1:42pm |
if it's occurred i can't say i've ever seen a post about it. sorry to hear that happened to a friend of yours. hope they are all doing well after the event.
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yellowstonestu
Groupie Joined: 04 Mar 2013 Location: Colorado Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
Posted: 29 Apr 2014 at 1:31pm |
Just had a friend pulling a 34 ft 5th wheel with a Ford F350 get blown over on I70 just outside of Limon,CO. Which got me to wondering if anyone has had such a catastrophic event happen to an RPod? One doesn't worry about those things until it happens to someone you know!
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Yellowstonestu & Bela the Vizsla
2008 Toyota FJ 2015 RPod 179 (Pod #2) |
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