Wicked North Dakota Storm
#1
06-20-2010, 01:59 PM
Wicked North Dakota Storm
We were heading west on I-94 on our trip to the Rockies when we came across this guy near Jamestown, ND the afternoon of June 5th (or maybe the 6th). I've always wanted to see one of these super-cell thunderstorms, but not directly on top of me. Right after the last pic was taken, everything took on an eerie orange-yellow hue and the semi trucks started passing us at 100 mph. Then the wind started blowing hard directly from the North. It took 2 hands on the wheel to keep the truck and our 27 foot 5th wheel camper on our 2 lanes. Looking in my side mirror revealed the trailer leaning to the point where I was certain it was going on it's side! The rain was coming down to where I nearly couldn't see the road but luckily never did receive any hail. We finally drove out of the wind and rain after maybe a minute and a half. I think we were lucky all this happened with us on the trailing south-western edge of the storm or things may have been a lot worse. I never did hear if it dropped a tornado, but if it didn't, it sure missed one hell of an opportunity! Now all I have to do is figure out how to fix the hole that got pinched into my seat!
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#3
06-20-2010, 07:06 PM
#6
06-21-2010, 12:51 AM
Diesel Bomber
That bottom picture is incredible. I love a good storm, as long as Im not flying through it
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That was definitely a large super-cell capable of a tornado. Those storms are awesome as long as your not in its path. I still say humans are arrogant to think we have any control over something as powerful as that but Al Gore says we do so what the hell
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That was definitely a large super-cell capable of a tornado. Those storms are awesome as long as your not in its path. I still say humans are arrogant to think we have any control over something as powerful as that but Al Gore says we do so what the hell
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#7
06-21-2010, 09:39 AM
Diesel Wrench
Must have been the 5th, my stand-up funeral was the 5th in MN and we had some weather like that to the north.
#8
06-21-2010, 03:00 PM
The trip was great. A little damp the first couple days but that's all good. We saw signs for Baker, MT not long after crossing into Montana but didn't have your contact info with us to say howdy.
We drove up to Glacier National Park, MT. Wifey and I were there back in 2004 but my Dad and step-mom had never seen it. Beautiful as ever but Going-to-the-sun Road was closed at Logan Pass due to the fact they hadn't gotten all the snow removed by then.
My dad and step-mom then turned north into Canada on their way to Alaska and we headed south into Yellerstone. Stayed in Gardiner, MT at the north gate for a couple days, then into Cody, WY to check out the Buffalo Bill Museum and the Cody Nite Rodeo. We then headed south to Shoshoni, WY where we stopped by Whit's house. Spent the day wrenching on the front axle joints of my truck as they BOTH failed, and with less than a year on 'em! Judging by the way they came apart, we're guessing they were either the wrong joints entirely or the right joints machined to the wrong tolerances as the bodies were moving both side to side AND back-and-forth inside the caps. All the needles were there, albeit they all had flat spots on em from the 500+ miles of pounding they endured before getting to Whit's. I just stopped and got a grease gun and a couple tubes of grease and filled them up every couple hundred miles.
From Shoshoni, we headed south-west past Whit's cabin and into Rock Springs, Wy where we grabbed 191 south through Flaming Gorge and into Vernal, UT. We stayed in a nice little campground in Dinosaur National Monument before heading into Colorado on US-40.
Out final site-seeing destination was Rockey Mountain National Park. It was absolutely breath-taking and full of critters begging to have their pictures taken. After that, we reluctantly pointed the rig toward I-70 for the 1500 mile drive back home.
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I'm pretty sure it was the 5th. It's the same day an F-2 touched down not far from home. It took out several barns, including one of the family's friends barn that was only about 17 years old due to the original being flattened by a tornado in the early 90's.
We drove up to Glacier National Park, MT. Wifey and I were there back in 2004 but my Dad and step-mom had never seen it. Beautiful as ever but Going-to-the-sun Road was closed at Logan Pass due to the fact they hadn't gotten all the snow removed by then.
My dad and step-mom then turned north into Canada on their way to Alaska and we headed south into Yellerstone. Stayed in Gardiner, MT at the north gate for a couple days, then into Cody, WY to check out the Buffalo Bill Museum and the Cody Nite Rodeo. We then headed south to Shoshoni, WY where we stopped by Whit's house. Spent the day wrenching on the front axle joints of my truck as they BOTH failed, and with less than a year on 'em! Judging by the way they came apart, we're guessing they were either the wrong joints entirely or the right joints machined to the wrong tolerances as the bodies were moving both side to side AND back-and-forth inside the caps. All the needles were there, albeit they all had flat spots on em from the 500+ miles of pounding they endured before getting to Whit's. I just stopped and got a grease gun and a couple tubes of grease and filled them up every couple hundred miles.
From Shoshoni, we headed south-west past Whit's cabin and into Rock Springs, Wy where we grabbed 191 south through Flaming Gorge and into Vernal, UT. We stayed in a nice little campground in Dinosaur National Monument before heading into Colorado on US-40.
Out final site-seeing destination was Rockey Mountain National Park. It was absolutely breath-taking and full of critters begging to have their pictures taken. After that, we reluctantly pointed the rig toward I-70 for the 1500 mile drive back home.
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I'm pretty sure it was the 5th. It's the same day an F-2 touched down not far from home. It took out several barns, including one of the family's friends barn that was only about 17 years old due to the original being flattened by a tornado in the early 90's.
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#10
06-21-2010, 08:02 PM
The trip was great. A little damp the first couple days but that's all good. We saw signs for Baker, MT not long after crossing into Montana but didn't have your contact info with us to say howdy.
We drove up to Glacier National Park, MT. Wifey and I were there back in 2004 but my Dad and step-mom had never seen it. Beautiful as ever but Going-to-the-sun Road was closed at Logan Pass due to the fact they hadn't gotten all the snow removed by then.
My dad and step-mom then turned north into Canada on their way to Alaska and we headed south into Yellerstone. Stayed in Gardiner, MT at the north gate for a couple days, then into Cody, WY to check out the Buffalo Bill Museum and the Cody Nite Rodeo. We then headed south to Shoshoni, WY where we stopped by Whit's house. Spent the day wrenching on the front axle joints of my truck as they BOTH failed, and with less than a year on 'em! Judging by the way they came apart, we're guessing they were either the wrong joints entirely or the right joints machined to the wrong tolerances as the bodies were moving both side to side AND back-and-forth inside the caps. All the needles were there, albeit they all had flat spots on em from the 500+ miles of pounding they endured before getting to Whit's. I just stopped and got a grease gun and a couple tubes of grease and filled them up every couple hundred miles.
From Shoshoni, we headed south-west past Whit's cabin and into Rock Springs, Wy where we grabbed 191 south through Flaming Gorge and into Vernal, UT. We stayed in a nice little campground in Dinosaur National Monument before heading into Colorado on US-40.
Out final site-seeing destination was Rockey Mountain National Park. It was absolutely breath-taking and full of critters begging to have their pictures taken. After that, we reluctantly pointed the rig toward I-70 for the 1500 mile drive back home.
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I'm pretty sure it was the 5th. It's the same day an F-2 touched down not far from home. It took out several barns, including one of the family's friends barn that was only about 17 years old due to the original being flattened by a tornado in the early 90's.
We drove up to Glacier National Park, MT. Wifey and I were there back in 2004 but my Dad and step-mom had never seen it. Beautiful as ever but Going-to-the-sun Road was closed at Logan Pass due to the fact they hadn't gotten all the snow removed by then.
My dad and step-mom then turned north into Canada on their way to Alaska and we headed south into Yellerstone. Stayed in Gardiner, MT at the north gate for a couple days, then into Cody, WY to check out the Buffalo Bill Museum and the Cody Nite Rodeo. We then headed south to Shoshoni, WY where we stopped by Whit's house. Spent the day wrenching on the front axle joints of my truck as they BOTH failed, and with less than a year on 'em! Judging by the way they came apart, we're guessing they were either the wrong joints entirely or the right joints machined to the wrong tolerances as the bodies were moving both side to side AND back-and-forth inside the caps. All the needles were there, albeit they all had flat spots on em from the 500+ miles of pounding they endured before getting to Whit's. I just stopped and got a grease gun and a couple tubes of grease and filled them up every couple hundred miles.
From Shoshoni, we headed south-west past Whit's cabin and into Rock Springs, Wy where we grabbed 191 south through Flaming Gorge and into Vernal, UT. We stayed in a nice little campground in Dinosaur National Monument before heading into Colorado on US-40.
Out final site-seeing destination was Rockey Mountain National Park. It was absolutely breath-taking and full of critters begging to have their pictures taken. After that, we reluctantly pointed the rig toward I-70 for the 1500 mile drive back home.
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I'm pretty sure it was the 5th. It's the same day an F-2 touched down not far from home. It took out several barns, including one of the family's friends barn that was only about 17 years old due to the original being flattened by a tornado in the early 90's.
Yep, would've been Wibaux/Baker, then another 100ish miles to the West, Miles City/Baker. But, I probably wouldn't have been home.
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