A true story RV'ing experience
I was reading
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-107433-1.html and it reminded me of what follows.
About '98, my wife and I and our 100 lb chocolate lab were traveling east on I-80 from Reno, east toward Utah.
We were east of Fernely and had gotten east of where the road had split and then came back together.
It was a beautiful clear day and we could see forever.
Far to the east, I saw a black cloud very close to ground level but it was moving toward us at a very great speed.
Then it disappeared below some hills ahead of us, then topped over it and disappeared again, and again, and again.
Suddenly, it rose out of a valley running parallel to I-80, very close to us, and was coming straight at us.
It was a jet and was coming at us about 10 ft. off the ground.
At the very last second, it went upward and passed over us.
It was so close that I could see the pilot's helmet and could almost read the writing on the helmet's forehead.
I was pulling my 5th wheeler, combined weight about 20k, at about 70 mph.
When it went over us, there was a period of dead silence and, just about this time, our lab became terrified and jumped into the front seat with my wife.
After what seemed about 15 seconds, we shook violently and I lost all steering control.
Just as quickly, everything came back to normal - or so we thought.
I think I was in some kind of shock because I just kept driving.
When we got to Winnemuca, we stopped to get a soda out of the trailer.
Every cabinet, the fridge doors, the couch and tables and everything not bolted down were tossed around.
it was as if King Kong had taken hold of us and shook as hard as he could.
It must have taken us an hour or so to make some order of it.
I told a friend of mine that flew Army attack copters and he told me that the Navy has a large base, Nellis I think, where all branches practice low to the ground maneuvers.
I am sure we were very lucky that the jet draft did not topple us and I think it was partially due to the fact that my wife likes to load the trailer so heavy - she does not believe there are grocery stores outside of the town where we live.
I doubt this entire episode lasted more than a minute or two.
Anyone else have a RV story?