Moral of the story is, always park your roadster next to taller vehicles.
Pretty easy to do, actually. ;-)
Glad your roadster's okay. Sorry about the truck.
CRAIG HALSTED wrote:
> we'd been in touch with our friends in florida daily, concerned for
> the fury of Floyd. they did the storm shutters, bought a generator,
> put up plywood....all were relieved when the storm passed and they
> only had some small branches down. then last night, around 9:30, I
> heard a real loud thump outside. we were having gusts up to around
> 70mph. went out to see my ford pickup looking like a lowrider, with
> the front end way down and a 70' pine tree lying across the hood. it
> had collected a couple small apple trees on the way down, and had
> also managed to cave in the roof of my next door neighbor's new
> contour. my roadster, parked in front of the truck, was only visible
> from the windshield back. front end all covered with branches, leaves,
> and pine boughs. AAAAAHHHHHHHH......luckily, the roadster was OK
> and I was able to back it out from under the debris. not so good for
> the truck, but won't be able to tell how bad until we get the tree
> off. no problem. heck, it's only a ford pickup- wouldn't have felt
> the same if it landed on the roadster. :-)
>
> Craig Halsted
> Malta, NY
> roadsters
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