Tornado's

Roadmedic · Apr 4, 2012

CondoCruiser said: ↑

There's several things you can do. First be up to date on the current weather by watching the news or using the internet daily. Know if you heading into a storm area. Some trips you'll have multiple routes and you might base your route on the weather.

A CB with weather or even the stereo with weather will broadcast the emergency broadcast system in them surprise moments. Truckers will usually talk on the CB. Buy you a CB with weather. You might not need it but once in a blue moon, but you're glad you have it sometimes.

If you find yourself in the immediate area, you need to be gathering knowledge with any means possible. You don't want to be stuck in the truck if all possible. A last ditch effort get out of the truck and find a ditch or box culvert if a solid building/ shelter isn't nearby. If I was in a truck stop like the one in Dallas that got hit, you would find me in the walk in cooler, not in the truck. Bridge overpasses are not a good idea. you want to be low as possible.

My closest call was the Nashville flood a couple years back. I was coming down I-24 through KY and I had a weather radio and it went off. I got three different tornado reports in relation to towns. I zoomed out my GPS and seen where they were and all were with in ten miles of me. I knew where they were by the weather radio and GPS. One had me concerned and I stopped at the Love's in Culvert City until it got on the other side of the interstate. Then I proceeded on just to get trapped in Nashville for two days.

When I first started driving I seen a massive tornado about five miles wide outside Oklahoma City but I wasn't in it's path, but it was an amazing site.

It's part of the excitement of being a truck driver because you will see some weather you've never seen before.
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Only problem with those type of radios, is that they are not county specific, so EVERY ALERT for the entire state comes is.

I remember one night in Texas that it went off every 15 minutes. After an hour, it was shut off so I could sleep.

acer925 · Apr 4, 2012

KE5WDP said: ↑

You pretty much have to look after yourself....If you are at a truckstop sleeping, the people working or even the other drivers will not likely go truck to truck to make sure everyone gets to safety....So be aware of the forecast and look at radars and it would help if you had a weather radio.

Here is a video that I took a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev5tmSHgKa0
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Could you of just gone in the truck stop you were parked at in this video if you needed to? Just wondering...

KE5WDP · Apr 5, 2012

acer925 said: ↑

Could you of just gone in the truck stop you were parked at in this video if you needed to? Just wondering...
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No truck stops in Mountain Home,Ar. Besides, I always park at the stores I dreliver to.

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