{"id":16032,"date":"2026-04-08T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:43:48","slug":"15-minute-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/15-minute-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"15-minute hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a storm blow through a couple of weeks ago. It didn&#8217;t last long and didn&#8217;t produce much rain but the initial winds were FIERCE. The first gust send the RV rocking as severely as any wind I have experienced in the13 years that I have been living in an RV. Fortunately my new awning was in or it may very well have been ripped right off. My lawn furniture and the totes I had under the RV were blown to the other side of my site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst damage to my site was the loss of my bougainvillea &#8211; It snapped off at the base. There was also considerable damage to neighboring tiki huts, similar to the damage done by category 5 Hurricane Ian 3 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t last long but I think that storm produced hurricane-force winds for about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"16034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102448-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bye bye bougainvillea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"16033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20260317_102627-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tiki damage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a storm blow through a couple of weeks ago. It didn&#8217;t last long and didn&#8217;t produce much rain but the initial winds were FIERCE. The first gust send the RV rocking as severely as any wind I have experienced in the13 years that I have been living in an RV. Fortunately my new &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/15-minute-hurricane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4aA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}