Posted by Dr. Walt on April 02, 2014 at 17:54:14 from (12.2.223.79):
In Reply to: Tornadoes posted by Mark W. on April 02, 2014 at 08:50:13:
Although I was raised in the Los Angeles area, I've lived most of my life in the desert. Being a Miner and bouncing around from one mining camp to another, I've always lived in travel trailers & have never owned a stick-built home.
Back in 1980 while working at the Mines in Death Valley, CA , a damned HUGE dust-devil (similar to a tornado but DRY) came through the Company's Mobile Home Park. It touched down across the street from us, hit a singlewide M.H. and litteraly ripped it off it's frame. It then picked up the frame & all the debris, flipped the frame 1 1/2 times in the air and slammed it into the singlewide directly across the street from us. It then turned 90 degrees and came directly at us, hitting our 1956 Flamingo 32' Park Model Travel Trailer head-on. Fortunately our trailer was ground-anchored with 3/8 inch steel cables over the top of the trailer. Ours was the only trailer in the Mobile Park that was anchored. - I learned a long time ago about anchoring trailers in the desert, we occasionally get Hurricane Force winds of 80+ MPH in the desert. - The dust-devil passed over us and continued across the M.H.Park and then went up the hillside depositing a path of debris nearly a hundred yards wide. I had other folks who witnessed the event tell me that when the dust-devil hit us that it didn't even quiver my 30 foot tall mono-pole antenna mast.
After this the Company quickly installed frame anchors on all of the Mobile Homes in the Park.
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