Larry, that's really good to hear....especially since Hurricane Dennis is
supposed to make landfall just a few miles from where I live. I made it
through the one last August. Hope I'm just as lucky this year.
Tom Caperton
'47 2nd 3100 in Whiteville, NC...Hurricane Magnet
-----Original Message-----
From: ldfinley@juno.com
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 1:48 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] Takes a licking and keeps on ticking
>Last May our little town got plastered by a big bad F-5 tornado. Some of
>you may have heard. Fortunately, I was out of town, but my '51 3100 5
>window was parked outside about 400 yards from where the center of the
>tornado passed. The destruction was unbelieveable, as the winds there
>were over 318 MPH. I would conservatively guess the wind speeds at my
>house were 175 to 200 MPH from the damage I saw when I got back. All my
>neighbors who rode it out, said that they thought they were gonna die.
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>But you can guess my great relief, to find just a couple of relatively
>minor 1-2" dents in the top of the cab of the 3100. You could see many
>scratches, and impact points along the side of the truck, where pieces of
>other people's houses had hit it, but with only that and no broken glass,
>I was a happy man. A very, very little bondo, and a new paint job and it
>will be as good as new.
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>The insurance adjuster, just scratched his head and said, "I guess they
>just don't make them like that any more." Nearly all my neighbors around
>me, weren't so lucky as they had pieces of lumber and telephone poles
>sticking through the sides and windows of their relatively new cars. And
>they were the lucky ones.
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>I'm not saying to anyone out there to deliberately drive their 3100 into
>the maw of a major tornado, but isn't it comforting to know you're in
>your "safe room" when you're out cruising down the road.
>
>Happy Truckin!
>
>Larry Finley
>Oklahoma City
>"The Mighty '51" Tornado Truck
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