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

Opening all the windows seems to work for me...but,
today with 40 mph wind gusts and COLD temps, I just
held a death grip on the wheel!

--- 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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