Camping mishaps...

We were on our way down to the Fort and stopped overnight. Someone (hubby) left everything connected to the truck and when we tried to crank Big Red up in the morning, she whined. The battery was dead. o_O I don't complain too loudly, though, because the next day, while pulling in, we heard a terrible crash. Someone in the next loop collided with a tree that left a gaping hole in their roof. My dead battery was no biggie compared to that!
 
Hey Ed,

Didn't you have a picture somewhere from a Fort trip where you saw a camper that a tree had fallen on? I thought it was one of your trip reports.

That would be terrible. I had awning damage once but I couldn't imagine having the whole camper destroyed.
 
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Like other people, we locked ourselves out of our TT several times. But it really wasn't our fault. After our first season of camping, we realized that the silly door really was randomly locking itself some of the time when we closed it. So we took it to have it repaired at the end of that season.

The next season, we went on our first camping trip. We picked the trailer up from storage and went to a nearby campground. That's when we found out that we hadn't replaced the keys on our key rings with the new keys for the new lock. I'm glad we camped close to home because we had to go get the key. We made several copies of that key and have them hidden everywhere now.
 
This past spring, we were setting-up, I took the cover off the bumper which holds the sewer hose. Reached in to pull out the hose and grabbed a wasp nest the size of a tennis ball. Thanks goodness the wasp were gone. Finished hooking up after I quite shaking. Almost did not need the sewer hook-up.:rotfl2:

At a state park, while talking to the gate attendant a camper was leaving. We noticed his antenna was left up. We stopped him and told him about the antenna. He stopped, went inside of the camper for about 5 min. He got back in the truck, did not lower the antenna:confused3 and drove about 50 yards and the antenna found a tree.
 


We were in Panama City Beach, FL. I backed into my site, parked, looked good were I was at, I put out the chocks, the I went for the power cord, it was about two feet too short to the plug in box. I hopped in the truck and backed up some. I got out and the older gentleman in the next site said "you just back over and smashed your chocks" . Yeah its always good setting up with a crowd watching:rainbow:!
 


Not quite a "camping" mishap, but 2 summers ago we were having amazing hot stretches in the Midwest. Multiple days over 100. We were racing outside Omaha, NE. The drive from StL wasn't too far, 6 hours or so. On the drive up, we blew a tire on each trailer. One the way back, we blew another one on the race trailer (48ft gooseneck, approximately 21,000 lbs) We had one of those drive on things that lifts the axle with the flat high enough to change without using a jack. Worked great on the drive up on gravel and concrete. On the drive back home we pulled into a mall parking lot that was all asphalt to change the tire. Drove the trailer up onto the lift thing, pulled off the flat (compressor and air tools in the trailer help a lot), went to put the spare on and it wouldn't go. Looked at the axle with the lift ramp under it and the lift had completely pushed through the asphalt. Apparently 112 degrees, 21K pounds and asphalt don't go well together. We put some boards down, used a bottle jack under the flat axle and then booked out as quick as we could.

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These stories are cracking me up! Here's mine.

On our VERY first trip to Fort Wilderness we were tent camping and drove down in a small Ford Ranger pick up with all our stuff in the back. We hit some pretty intense rain on the way down so everything got soaked. When we got there, we set up the tent and screen room and went to the camp store to replace our soaked charcoal. Came back to find someone messing around on our screen room!

We were ready for a confrontation, but quickly realized what was going on. We had lit a citronella candle inside the screen room and unfortunately, our 5 year old son had placed a roll of paper towels right next to it. That would have been bad enough but there was a can of bug spray on the table as well. The roll of paper towels caught fire, which in turn caught the bug spray on fire. The top melted off and acted basically as a flame thrower. It was spinning around on the table shooting flames. There were holes ALL around the screen room. Our good Samaritan neighbor was putting it out. LOL
 
Well I have some idle time on the morning shift so I can share my top camping moments.

Back in February when we went to FW one thing that didn't make my trip report was this, Back over winter I winterized the camper, and Disney was the first trip of the year. The day before we left I flushed the water system, replace the water filter. Well I forgot to turn off the faucet in the outside kitchen. I turned off the water coming from my house. While shutting everything up I put the cover back on the outside sink. Anyways the next day at FW I was sitting up the everything I hooked the power, water, sewer, jacks.... I was setting up our hammock and heard water, I turned and looked and yup I flooded the outside kitchen... "BABY, GET ME SOME TOWELS!!!" I dried everything up, no harm done.
 
Sounds like we have a lot of mishaps, but we camp alot and it's not as bad as it seems. Don't be afraid to camp beside us haha
 
Mine is Fort related also. Last year we had our first trip to the Fort planned. When with 3 weeks to go before we left we decided to upgrade to a bigger camper. So I spent the 3 weeks making sure everything worked. I checked everything out we even slept in it in our driveway. I was confident we were good. We arrive at the Fort and my wife decide to take a shower and I am messing around outside and I notice water pouring out from under the camper right where the shower is located! I pulled a panel off the shower wall and see the drain line is cracked! I ran the shower before we left I guess I didn't run it long enough for the drain line to leak. The shower houses at the fort are nice and we were literally 100' away but very disappointed we couldn't use our new and bigger shower. Then to top it off we got ready to head to MK and I got our magic bands out and tore the piece off to make it smaller for my 5 DD so I just grabbed the pink one and tore it off, yep your right the pink one was my wife's! The good news is the rest of the trip was uneventful!!
 
Give me a break....I'm blonde, LOL. My daughter and I put together a wanna-be pop up from a kit. It is basically a utility trailer that transforms into a pop up when the tent portion is erected on it. I was leaving the campground to go home and someone came running after me to say my rear stabilizer was still down. It cleared the pavement but for a full year we had been only tilting it part way not knowing it folded another time to be flush with the trailer bottom.

Years ago I showed up at a primitive campout with only a tent, no poles. My brother managed to string the tent partially erect using a rope and a few trees. Luckily it didn't rain.
 
As a kid I had that misfortune of taking the tent minus the poles. We just decided to sleep in our sleeping bags around the fire. No rain for us either.

Another good "DOH!" moment
 
We took a 7 week trip (with a teenager and a pre-teen) across the country last summer in our 40ft MH (that we had only previously used that spring break at FW), so the mishaps were numerous.

Let's see...
1) The battery disconnect switch (turns off everything) is low and next to the door so you can reach in and turn it off when in storage. Passenger seat also happens to be there. The cupholder in the middle is not easy to reach, so I set my water bottle on the floor next to my seat. The water bottle flipped that switch and everything stopped working but the engine. I spent like 30 minutes reading the inverter manual and troubleshooting and then somehow figured out the disconnect was flipped.

2) Same day/drive - my husband had turned on the headlights and when we stopped to check in, there was a beep that wouldn't stop. Finally figured out it was a warning the headlights were on.

3) Also same day, the campground was super windy (outside Great Sand Dunes NP). Our big slide seemed to get stuck when we were putting it out. Went to look and the slide topper had buckled. The wind was flapping it like crazy. Tried putting rocks on it to hold it down. Ended up having to remove the whole thing.

4) Our RV specific GPS sent us on the Burr Trail, which is like a Jeep road in UT. We got to a point where we couldn't turn around and had to keep going, eventually on the back country road into Capitol Reef NP. The road was so washboarded we had to drive really slow so as not to mess up the suspension. I think it was 25 ish miles that took 8+ hours.

I know there were more from that trip, but I must have blocked them out.

One other that comes to mind was back when the boys were cub scouts and we were tent camping. We had 2 cots, my husband was in one and the boys in the other. I can sleep on anything, so I volunteered for the ground. There was a huge thunderstorm in the middle of the night. I woke up in like 3" of water with incredibly loud thunder claps. Luckily nothing near us got struck by lightning. Turns out your tarp needs to be the same size as your tent and no larger.
 
elliemae1192 said:
These stories are cracking me up! Here's mine.

On our VERY first trip to Fort Wilderness we were tent camping and drove down in a small Ford Ranger pick up with all our stuff in the back. We hit some pretty intense rain on the way down so everything got soaked. When we got there, we set up the tent and screen room and went to the camp store to replace our soaked charcoal. Came back to find someone messing around on our screen room!

We were ready for a confrontation, but quickly realized what was going on. We had lit a citronella candle inside the screen room and unfortunately, our 5 year old son had placed a roll of paper towels right next to it. That would have been bad enough but there was a can of bug spray on the table as well. The roll of paper towels caught fire, which in turn caught the bug spray on fire. The top melted off and acted basically as a flame thrower. It was spinning around on the table shooting flames. There were holes ALL around the screen room. Our good Samaritan neighbor was putting it out. LOL
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OMG thank you so much. I have had the worst day imaginable, and this just made me laugh and laugh. This is something that would totally happen to me, so I really got a chuckle out of it. :)
 
We were camping in Virginia (tent) and were fixing dinner. I "temporarily" used the velcro on the tent cover for our garbage bag while making dinner. Completely forgot about it. In the middle of the night a skunk was attracted by the tuna can in there and stole the garbage bag. Fortunately it didn't spray or get in the tent.... we simply saw it on the run from our screen door at the front of the tent. The can was licked clean :)

Close call!!
 
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