This news video will not be promoted by the PR folks at the RV Industry Association (RVIA). Yes, what you see above is indeed an RV, our guess is a 5th wheel trailer. Oh, but wait: it’s not a trailer, it WAS a trailer.
It was picked up recently by a very strong wind from where it was parked on an oil field site near Calumet, Oklahoma, and tossed a few dozen yards away. As you will see far below, other trailers were also moved or damaged. We do not know if anyone was in the smashed RV: We don’t think so.
If you look closely at the photo above at the top of the page, you might see what looks like a woman in a dark dress and red shoes standing on a long board right in the center of the trailer’s rubble. At first we were baffled that the person did not appear to have a head. When you watch the video you will learn, as we did, what you are really seeing (not a headless woman).
The weather reporter in the TV segment spends a minute or so explaining that RVs are not places to be in violent weather. In this case, the winds were not tornado strength, but were powerful enough to send the RV airborne and then pulverize it when it dropped it back to earth.
As he points to the helicopter view of the destruction, reporter Jim Gardner says this about RVs: “These are great 99.9 percent of the year when you can travel or live [in an RV] but when the weather gets nutty you can’t be in one of these.”
Now, watch the video (and be thankful this was not your RV).
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Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 Yikes! Oh my! 😯 How awful! I used closed captions to watch. Did the newsguy say that when the temperature gets to 90° F that the weather can become dangerous, spawning high winds if not tornadoes? Thanks again, have a great weekend, and safe travels! 🙂