Tragedy - caravan blown off cliff - woman dies
Just seen this news report. Take care during the windy weather and stay safe out there folks.
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Getting quite blustery where I am so we've taken the garden furniture indoors.
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Tragic, on our first trip away we were sideways on to a river, got very breezy and rocky overnight, glad I made OH join me in the facilities block for a couple of hours! All was ok but it was hitting full on the side and I wasn't keen - we've learnt to head into the wind now - didn't know at the time or we could have turned it.
We're well to the east and are having some big gusts, not on the map for the storm area, so take care folks.
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We used to store our caravan in an open area by a lake. One year a storm blew it over. All covered by the insurance but some time after the repair was done it suffered from bad damp and had to be written off. We always wondered whether the structural damage had caused it to eventually leak.
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From the picture it does not look like it got blown i the air rather just rolled off the edge of the cliff as it is virtually intact. I always thought it near impossible except with say a Tornado to lift a 1.5 ton caravan/car etc. but maybe not if the gust is strong enough in the right direction?
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It is quite possible that the caravan handbrake was not engaged and no wheel chocks deployed and the caravan was rolled over the cliff by the wind.
When we decided to spend the night in a hotel on Monday rather than rock and roll in the early hours of Tuesday l took the precaution of applying handbrake and wheel chocks.
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Just a very sad and tragic story. Thoughts are with her family.
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It has been reported that she was asleep at the time!! I do wonder how anyone came by that conclusion though. There's no report of anyone else being in the van so perhaps she didn't want to venture outside move her unit in the dark by herself. A very sad situation all the same.
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Sad indeed not sure what to make of the Cliff story though. Cloudn't make out much of a cliff on the pictures I have seen or a site for that matter. Last year on a very exposed site with an gale due, I moved pitches just to make sure our outfit had its head into the wind.
peedee
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This area of the Connemara/Galway coast would be exposed to the full force of the Atlantic winds, although the cliffs are fairly low lying it would be a difficult event to survive in such extreme circumstances. Poor lady, I wouldn't want to speculate any further, it's a dreadful accident.
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Yes we think of our caravans as being quite heavy, especially when we try and move them with out a mover and how improbable that winds can move them especially with steadies down. I remember a December when the was a similar storm and winds. We had a seasonal at Troutbeck Head and people slept in the toilet block and large playroom. We had arrived the day after and the front of the caravan had been pushed sideways by about a foot by the wind you could see the way the steadies had gouged out a path in the gravel.
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