Re: Reply: [ihc] Max sustained winds to drive in?

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was pulling my travel tailer across Wyoming last
year.  For one day the wind probably never dropped
below 30 mph.  Didn't cause any problems except that
fuel mileage was reallyl down from normal.

30 mph wind alone is probably too conservative.  At
night with blinding rain would be a different issue. 
More important than the wind is the visibility, do you
know the road well, etc.

Steve
--- DeepSouthScouts@domain.elided wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Greg Hermann wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> >I drove a Traveller with no lift and 31's and a 17
> foot trailer behind with
> >a lot of boxy 'stuff' on it through about 50--60
> mph quartering headwinds,
> >westbound on I-80 from Creston Junction to Green
> River (WY) a few years
> >ago. Not really any trouble, 
> =snipqe=
> 
> Sounds like fun Greg. I sure wouldnt want to do it
> with
> a trailer. :~) 
> 
> >These folks from Dixie REALLY ought to spend some
> time in weird, winderful
> >Wyoming if they wanna learn what wind is all
> about---- 
> 
> Say, it wasnt raining sideways about 3 to 4 inches
> an 
> hour at the time was it?
> Water 6 or 12 inches deep in low spots on the road?
> Mud across the road at every farmers driveway.
> 
> If you want to know what RAIN is all about, come on 
> down to Dixie. :~)
> 
> 
> Mike Toney
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