Wind and "white knucklin"! Pull over or keep moving?

You want to see what its like..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDrzY18xvj0

 

If you planned your trip better you would have caught the green light....

 

Or he should leave an hour earlier.....then he would have missed the asteroid...

 

Ok, last night encountered very extreme weather. However, I felt that it was safer to drive as fast as i possibly could than to shut down. It was the same storm that produced a 1/2 mile wide tornado in mississippi if that tells you anything.

Picked up a load at the atlanta terminal (actually in lithia springs). It was thundering and lightnining and downpouring like all hell while i dropped and hooked. got to 285, it was heavy rain, but after a while.....the sky was kind of an odd color, and it started raining so hard that i couldnt go any faster than 35..i just couldnt see at a faster speed. even worse, all the idiot four wheelers were pulling over on the shoulder. dont they realize how dangerous STOPPING is if no one can see? much safer to proceed slowly.

anyway, got through that took 85 north, weather seemed to get better until i got to SC. But it still didnt seem that bad. But then i started noticing multiple little groups of rotating clouds. Not tornados (yet), but i've never seen anything quite like that. I guess thats how tornados are made... Some of them were really big, some were really small, one was even funnel shaped and speeding up. Who knows if they did anything.

But after a few minutes, i looked to my left again, and there was a real tornado on the ground! It wasn't on the highway yet, but it was in a field to my left, and it looked really close but i think it was farther away than it appeared, because i couldnt hear it. It looked like a rope dangling from the sky. I kept the hammer down, i knew i didnt wanna stop here!!

at what point would you stop for a tornado? I'd only stop if there was one in front of me! I saw one last night but i was northbound and it was southbound and not on the highway. I wish i would have stopped...to take a picture. If its in any other position ill try to outrun it.

And if you stop, do you stay in the truck? Do you hide under an underpass? Do you do stay in it and park it under an overpass?

i remember when i was a kid in 1st grade they showed us two videos about tornados and what to do. one odd thing, in one video they said stay in the car if your in a car, in another they said get out and hide in a ditch or something. So which the hell is it? And my question is, if its going to throw the car, what's it going to do to you? I think i'd rather be in a car/truck to be honest.

I wonder what safety would say if you called in, said a tornado came and sucked your truck up and you watched it fly away and dont know where it went, and you took cover under an overpass or something..LOL....

And i guarantee you if i saw a tornado in my car and felt it was coming my way, i would not stop. not for nothing. If its in front of me, ill do a uturn and try to outrun it. If its behind me, ill try to outrun it....no matter how fast its coming, they can dissapear at any second...

 

Which is more dangerous,,driving when you can't see or stopping when you can't see.

 

The fact that you are able to call, and did'nt fly away with the trk. Should say alot.

How about this.. A Swift driver near Wendover NV. had their trailer struck by a Cesena two seater airplane...Yes AIRPLANE..while on the highway..
Two things here #1 How do you explain this to safety..and #2 WHY a Swift trl. bad enough about what we are thought've on the ground, has that now extended to the air as well......LOL

 

Obviously that SWIFT driver allowed his trailer to bounce high enough to knock that plane out of the sky. Chargeable accident!

 

you guys make me laugh..