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The Shop Truck

1971 Chevy C20 with a custom flat bed.
My dad had me do it once and I peed all over the semi.
He stopped after that, but I learned to hold it for a LONG time cause he wasn't gonna stop when I wanted lol.
 
There was supposed to be a picture in that post. My bandwidth sucks here.
Also, f*ck Illinois and Indiana. 70-90mph gusts in a supercell just past Springfield. The entire freeway stopped for about 10 minutes, thankfully we ended up partially under an overpass.

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The stop for lunch was a mistake, we would have avoided the storm and traffic around Chicago if we skipped it.
 
I was driving through there many years ago, at night. Rain and terrible winds. I could not pass the semis because of the water. The next morning at the RV dealership, the news was going on and on about the tornadoes last night. I had no clue. Driving back through with the 5th wheel behind me, signs, trees and crap all over the freeway. Dodged a bullet that night.
 
I did the same in Illinois.
Used to drive from the southern tip of Indiana, all the way to the eastern tip of Iowa every other Friday for 4 years. Back to Indiana again the same Sunday.
One night near Galesburg it was raining and blowing so hard I had to stop the car, even me being a 22 year old that thought I was superman and invincible.
Next day in Iowa I was seeing reports of a tornado about the time I was there near Galesburg.

Sitting out there I was thinking the whole time, "if there's a tornado in this, I'd never see it coming"
 
I was driving through there many years ago, at night. Rain and terrible winds. I could not pass the semis because of the water. The next morning at the RV dealership, the news was going on and on about the tornadoes last night. I had no clue. Driving back through with the 5th wheel behind me, signs, trees and crap all over the freeway. Dodged a bullet that night.
Driving through Indiana you could see all the damage from that storm and I guess there were similar storms the last two days. Tons of massive trees down on houses and rvs next to i40.

Before we got tucked under the overpass I heard the chugga chugga chugga like a train and was pretty sure we were about to get a tornado, but it passed and we got under the overpass. Not a fun time, it poured the rest of the way through Illinois and part way through Indiana.
 
This is a fancy site, we're at steamboat Park right on the Grand River. They'll come around in a paddle boat.
 
With the dumps closed, the rv is way louder than the shop truck. I'm going to make friends when we leave at 5am on Monday. I won't be surprised if we're told to not come back. I should have recorded the drive in to our current spot, It was almost 8pm.
 

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