Future Rallies?

[flyu2there]

Having been dancing around, and occasionally finding, some real, nasty weather for nearly a month now in the Missouri and Iowa area, I'm not looking forward to returning to the mid-west anytime soon during the spring.

We are now in Osceola, Iowa and last night the weather alerts were going off every 5 to 10 minutes until about 1:00 am.

Luckily, the casino provided a safe haven with plenty to entertain us

Jeep (aka 007),

Nuff said!! Guess you have never been around this neck of the woods, ehh??

John

[truk4u]

Paul,

Are you still going to Amana, we get there on the 6th?

[truk4u]

Killing the Rally in OK in the spring because maybe the weather will be bad is like not going to the Caribbean a year in advance because maybe a hurricane might show up!

[jello_jeep]

I agree with you Tom..

QUOTE=truk4u;31136]Killing the Rally in OK in the spring because maybe the weather will be bad is like not going to the Caribbean a year in advance because maybe a hurricane might show up![/QUOTE]

[Joe Cannarozzi]

Warren I don't know about that analogy.

We have been on numerous cruises and land based vacations visiting better than 25 islands from Bermuda to the Falklin Islands. The first time we made the mistake of going in Hurricane season was the last time we ever made that mistake. Had to deal with Hurricane Louis leaving and was chased back by Marilyn. From that point on it was only trips to the Caribbean from Thanksgiving through the End of May and the weather became a non issue.

It sucks to have a trip ruined by weather and if you can all but eliminate such a risk by timing the destination in the correct season one should try.

I don't think many in this group are shut-ins for fear of the sky falling but I know as I get older there is a bunch of things that I now take into consideration that I never used to

[rfoster]

So Skiffer, where in in Oklahoma is the 09 Rally?

[tdelorme]

Killing the Rally in OK in the spring because maybe the weather will be bad is like not going to the Caribbean a year in advance because maybe a hurricane might show up!

Yep, well said. Might as well stay home if weather has become the fear factor.

[garyde]

If the date can be moved back two weeks, maybe that would be early enough to not fear hurricane season.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I'm with Gary on this one. We all have heaters. Schedule it slightly ahead of the historic times the storms start.

BTW, FMCA held a rally years back in Minot and the hail damage to coaches was in the hundreds of thousands if not millions.

[flyu2there]

Killing the Rally in OK in the spring because maybe the weather will be bad is like not going to the Caribbean a year in advance because maybe a hurricane might show up!

I know as well as anyone that the chances of a tornado "hitting the rally", even smack dab in the middle of the season (early Spring) is remote, however, remember that nasty thunderstorms and hail are common in the Oklahoma/Kansas regions at that time and, unfortunately, a few spawn something worse (Hello Dorothy and ToTo). Everyone knows about hurricanes days in advance, big difference from minutes in advance!

These things happen to be afternoon/evening/night time phenomena and they are frequently widespread, by that I mean they cover a large area. I have flown over the region hundreds of times mostly uneventful but, there have been a few times when I wished I had been home in bed. Radar painting bright red solid lines of severe thunderstorms, twenty to thirty miles wide and two hundred miles long! Cloud tops reported to be above 70,000 feet.....ACARS beeping and printing out Convective Sigmet's so fast that the ink supply runs low.....and all that is way up there in the sky, in a great big jet with all kinds of fancy radios and gizmo's to keep us away from the storms....I certainly wouldn't want to be underneath, on the ground, at the mercy of the gods!

Go a few hundred miles North or South and, while one is rarely ever out of it completely, the chances of just plain nasty weather is greatly reduced. It all has to do with the Polar Jet (jetstream) moving South for the Summer (which it always does), getting a little orographic action from the rockpile (Rockies) and clashing with the warm, moist Gulf Air...BINGO!

John