[tcb] Re: What's the magic number?

Yes, yes there is a way.


Are you ready?


If your bus is on less than 4 wheels while driving, then it's too
windy.. ;-)



On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 20:00 -0600, julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jeepers!  It was super windy in Austin today!  Too windy for me on the
> highways so I thought I'd stick to the access roads but even when
> parked it felt like Donner (my '71) was going to fly away and I didn't
> even feed him any magic carrots.  Is there a formula to figure out
> when it is unsafe to drive a bus because of wind -  like the mph of
> the maximum wind gusts times the mph in which the bus is moving over
> the weight of the load in the bus divided by the whatever squared?  Is
> it safer to have the windows open sort of like turning away from a
> punch or will open windows invite the Bernoulli effect?   In this
> situation they don't mention wind but I want to know how easy is it to
> end up like this
> http://picasaweb.google.com/julie.hey.ho.lets.go/UpsideDownBus  or at
> least laying a bus on its side due to wind?  Or am I just a worry
> wart?

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