On Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 7:30:52 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Bob Youngblood wrote on 8/2/2020 3:01 PM:
On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 5:48:33 PM UTC-4, Bob Youngblood wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 6:24:28 PM UTC-4, Bob Youngblood wrote:
As we get closer to August the tropics are showing those typical late summer cyclone development possibilities. There is one on the horizon for early Sunday, so I guess it is time to put the gliders in the box and store on a secure location. Our club will be securing all gliders and I will take the tow planes to a secure location to weather the storm. Now I am headed to the store to grab a few more bottles of rum and more ammunition in case the crazies try to loot. Bob

Looks like things are changing rapidly and we are sure to get some high winds and rains starting tomorrow. I spent the day at the gliderport making sure everything was secured and all gliders were in the hangar. I took the ASW24 and the 27 to the house to store in the hangar at home. Mother nature is certainly hard to beat. Bob

Things seemed to be much less of an impact than expected. Only moderate winds and some rain, but the precautions will certainly pay off next time. Bob

Do you ever sleep in the hangar when a storm is coming?

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Not in the hangar, but I have been in a closet surrounded by pillows and blankets with a nice bottle of rum. It really isn't fun when the winds reach 135 and things are flying all over the place. In 2004 I had my restored J3 cub in a hangar and at the last moment I decided to move it to a better location. That was a smart move, the next morning after the storm passed the hangar that I moved from had collapsed onto two other planes destroying both, my old J3 survived and still going strong. Bob