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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2019, 05:23 AM Mar 2019

Bomb Cyclone 2019 - Trucks flipped by hurricane force winds

Blake Brown Photography
Published on Mar 13, 2019
A bomb cyclone pushes through the Kansas area today creating winds sustained at 60MPH and gusts over 80 MPH in the Texas Panhandle! Trucks being blown over, power lines and trees coming down, and multiple structures having roofs blown off. This was by far the most intense non storm wind event I have ever been in!

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Bomb Cyclone 2019 - Trucks flipped by hurricane force winds (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Mar 2019 OP

It was bad. littlebit Mar 2019 #1

glad to hear it. barbtries Mar 2019 #3

K&R, looks like the trucks have to slow down to keep from flipping ... man, sad situation uponit7771 Mar 2019 #2

Straight-line winds...at least that's what they use to be called. rusty quoin Mar 2019 #4

Drivers on the Trucker's Report forum were Kittycow Mar 2019 #5

None of those buildings or telephone poles were moving. Parked trucks flip, too. marble falls Mar 2019 #6

Some of them might have been. littlebit Mar 2019 #7

Invoking "jesus" constantly did not seem to achieve much. BSdetect Mar 2019 #8

littlebit

(1,728 posts)

1. It was bad.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 06:32 AM

Mar 2019

There were a few times yesterday I thought I was going to flip my truck. But I made it home.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)

3. glad to hear it.

Reply to littlebit (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 06:51 AM

Mar 2019

i hope those drivers were okay.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

2. K&R, looks like the trucks have to slow down to keep from flipping ... man, sad situation

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 06:35 AM

Mar 2019

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

4. Straight-line winds...at least that's what they use to be called.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 07:34 AM

Mar 2019

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)

5. Drivers on the Trucker's Report forum were

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 07:55 AM

Mar 2019

speculating that some of the trailers were empty and that's a factor in why they flipped so easily.

I wonder why they didn't just pull over?

marble falls

(57,106 posts)

6. None of those buildings or telephone poles were moving. Parked trucks flip, too.

Reply to Kittycow (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:14 AM

Mar 2019

littlebit

(1,728 posts)

7. Some of them might have been.

Reply to Kittycow (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 10:42 AM

Mar 2019

I had 36,000 in the trailer and did ok on I-40 going into the wind. That video was from 335 northbound. The wind was coming out of the west so it was hitting the side of the truck.

I am sure most of them didn't pull over for the same reason I didn't. They didn't think it was that bad.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)

8. Invoking "jesus" constantly did not seem to achieve much.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 10:49 AM

Mar 2019

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