A lot of you guys have seen my camper at the classic. I built it around 8 years ago for hauling osage staves. Now it's used for family camping trips. We had just left for a weekend trip to a state park when we ran into some weather as we hit our small town. In the distance of less than 100 yards it went from a light rain to quarter sized hail, torrential rain, and stronger wind than I've ever seen. Half of a large tree snapped off and fell into the road as we drove by. It hit the side of the truck and camper. Luckily it was the upper limbs and didn't cause any damage. The wind got stronger and I was afraid the camper was going to flip over. I pulled into a large parking lot and turned into the wind. The rain was so hard we couldn't see the end of the truck hood. I've never seen anything like it. The truck and camper were rocking all around. After it passed we checked for damage. I believe if I hadn't of turned into the wind it would have probably took the roof off of it. Half of the small town looked like a tornado hit. Trees were down everywhere. They were using a large loader to push trees off the main street. Telephone poles were even broke off and power lines were down. Once we made it to the center of town the damage stopped. You couldn't tell it stormed there. At the other end of town it hadn't even rained. Later we found out that it was a micro burst storm and likely had winds of 100 mph or more for a short time. I'm glad I used 13 lbs of screws building that camper. We were able to continue on our trip and had some much needed family time.
