[tcb] Re: What's the magic number?
- From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:17:09 -0600
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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