Wind Advisory

Awakened at 3am with wind gusts up to 50mph. Not the most fun way to begin a day. Intermixed with the wind was the sound of little ice pebbles hitting the roof. It's kind of funny to wake up from a half-sleep dream thinking that someone is stealing your travel trailer with you inside and the slides still out! While you know this is something only for a Hollywood movie, the dizziness created by the wind tells you it must be true. You begin to argue with yourself. The sounds of traffic on the nearby road serves to convince you the motion you feel must be accurate. The windchimes from the trailer two pads down convinces you that you are passing a cow farm. You say to yourself, "Get up!! Look out the window! Someone is stealing us!" In your dream state you look out the window... for pretend... and find cars speeding by and no one seeming to give any concern to an RV being towed down the road with slides out and Christmas lights, power cords, and drainage pipes dangling behind. Fighting to pull yourself out of the dream, you finally win over your brain to consciousness. There you find yourself relieved to be sitting on the same pad of concrete from which you seemingly left. And oh so thankful it was all just the wind and your brain playing a trick.

So, in Wizard of Oz winds, is it better to leave slides in or out? Stay with the ship or abandon ship? Is it helpful to have skirting around the trailer to reduce wind-flow from underneath?