R-pod Owners Forum : What a storm... https://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Camping Adventures : What a storm... Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:11:15 +0000 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:57:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 https://www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1893 R-pod Owners Forum https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.rpod-owners.com/ What a storm... : Originally posted by DavidThey... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16879#16879 Author: HuronSailor
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 7:57pm

Originally posted by David

 They were using snow plow trucks to clear the leaves and smaller limbs ...

Holy smoke! You win.
]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:57:44 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16879#16879 What a storm... : Glad to hear everyone survived... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16874#16874 Author: Guests
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 6:35pm

Glad to hear everyone survived their respective storm experiences.  It kind of reminds me of my stay at Elkmont in the Smoky's last fall.  They were using snow plow trucks to clear the leaves and smaller limbs from the roads.  The campground entrance was blocked for a while due a downed tree but, the NPS was really on top of the situation and had things cleared quick.  ]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:35:56 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16874#16874 What a storm... : It has been a wild spring. While... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16868#16868 Author: HuronSailor
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 3:03pm

It has been a wild spring. While we were camping in Ontario earlier this month we had two nights of brief but violent thunderstorms: almost continuous strobing lightning, high winds, and even hail. Trees down all over, including one in our campsite.  Immediately after the storm passed, about 3:00 AM, the park folks were out with tractors and chainsaws clearing the park roads. After seeing the extent of the storm damage the next morning, I don't think we would have been able to leave if they hadn't jumped right on it.

But no damage done to pod or TV, and at least I didn't have to get up, put on my foulies, and go out to make sure the anchor wasn't dragging like I would have done in years past when we were cruising up in that area.
]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:03:07 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16868#16868 What a storm... : You're getting wind and we... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16862#16862 Author: Snowbound
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 1:32pm

You're getting wind and we are getting torrential rain. We had a month's rain over the last couple of days. Thank goodness it is not raining today while we dry out the stuff from our basement. The only good thing is the firefighters have got a jump on that wild fire up north at last. The fire has burned an area the size of Prince Edward Island. Are we all getting weird weather or is it just reporting making it seem so?
Really glad everyone is ok.]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:32:12 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16862#16862 What a storm... : Definitely a wild spring for storms.... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16858#16858 Author: techntrek
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 10:06am

Definitely a wild spring for storms.  Also glad to hear you were ok.]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:06:52 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16858#16858 What a storm... : There sure have been some horrible... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16851#16851 Author: Caverkim
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 8:44am

There sure have been some horrible storms lately.  Glad all turned out ok for you!  ]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:44:45 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16851#16851 What a storm... : It's good to know that you're... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16848#16848 Author: tpierce220
Subject: 1893
Posted: 21 Jun 2011 at 8:15am

It's good to know that you're safe.  We had a nasty storm blow in where we were camping over Memorial Day.  The owner told us we had 45 minutes before the storm was going to hit, and he was right.  We had six people huddled inside the Pod while the storm can in with pretty strong winds and rain.  We were thankful that nothing bad happened and were even more thankful that we weren't in a tent.  

Tim
]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:15:41 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16848#16848 What a storm... : That's a really nice... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16845#16845 Author: kymooses
Subject: 1893
Posted: 20 Jun 2011 at 11:15pm

That's a really nice looking site you have there!
 
Glad to hear everything turned out okay, and that afterwards it was a nice weekend for you still.
 
 I think that same storm moved through here earlier the night before.  It certainly was some pretty strong winds if it was the same front that we had.
 
 
]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:15:01 +0000 https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16845#16845 What a storm... : This weekend'scamping trip... https://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1893&PID=16844#16844 Author: iamsmonk
Subject: 1893
Posted: 20 Jun 2011 at 10:54pm

This weekend's camping trip was one for the books.  In all my years of camping I've only been scared twice and this weekend was one of them.  Two years ago we were camping in our pop-up in the NC mountains and experienced one monster of a storm.  I'm not usually afraid of lightning but that weekend it was so close, frequent and strong, I was a bit edgy to say the least.
 
This weekend it was wind.....we lucked up and got a lovely site we'd been trying to reserve for 2 years now.  It's big, secluded and easy to back in to.  We arrived Friday night and got mostly set up before dark.  Weatherman said the weekend was going to be HOT and he was right on the money.  We were lounging around Saturday afternoon, both of us deep in our novels.  Between the heat and the book I was getting pretty drowsy so around 3:30 I went in the pod to catch some cool air and 40 winks.  At 4:00 Carol came in to wake me up, said a storm was coming in FAST!  I jumped up, went out and OMG!!!  The wind was incredible and the sky coming in was so dark.  I drove a couple of stakes in our EZ-Up, attached the straps to the dome which was about to take flight and staked them down.  While we were trying to get everything safely stored we heard an awful sound...two HUGE pine trees went crashing down.  Luckily no one was under them!  But needless to say it scared the HELL out of us!  We got everything as secure as we could and went in the pod, sitting at the dinette just waiting.  I got my cell phone, truck keys and wallet just in case we needed to make a quick exit, but after a bit, the wind died down.  We got a bit of rain, but not too much.  The power went out about 4:30 so we lost the weather station on the TV and our radio did not have any batteries!  Top of our to-do list is get batteries for the radio.  A handful of campers decided to pull out and head home since camping with their kids with no electricity was unbearable.  A pop-up a few sites away had some major damage to their awning.  The power finally came back on around 10:30pm.  Other than that I think everybody else was OK.  The rest of the weekend was fine.  When we got home today we were barely able to get the truck and the pod into the driveway due to all the limbs and branches covering the driveway.  We have a few downed trees here at the house, but fortunatly none on the house. 
 
This is the pod on our lovely campsite:
 
It's kinda hard to tell the size of this, but it's the roots of the two pines that went down:
 
 
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
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