jann1033
<font color=darkcoral>Right now I'm an inch of nat
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not at wdw, but in sebastian inlet state park, fl( great clean park btw)
we got a new cabin tent, 14x16, nice big screened porch/room and a rainfly. only thing was the rain fly only came down about 2 ft past the end of the roof and when it was at all windy , the rainfly would flap around so much it would pull out the stakes...ok, first set up, lasted 4 days, finally got the stakes to not come out with the fly. couldn't get a weekend ressie so forced ourselves to stay at an ocean front hotel in cocoa
, came back and set up again and the last night the winds were gusting around 20mph...( according to rangers) and the rainfly stakes stayed in but the thing was flapping around and expanding and contracting...i said to hubby, do you think we are safe in here since we saw lightening in the distance he said "yeah, i think so, if it starts to storm we'll go to the car." no sooner than the words were out of his mouth a gust came, ripped the entire tent and 16 stakes out of the ground and threw it and us on our queen sized double high air bed 10 feet through the air and crashing into our car( thankfully it was parked there since we were heading towards big trees otherwise). husband was on left side of bed so he was hurled through the air, i was more dumped and dragged along with the tent with the air bed on top of me...it took 8 grown men holding down the tent( thanks to my screams of panic due to being claustrophobic and stuck in a tent in the dark with a mattress on top of me they heard me all over the campground and came running) to help us get out..it was blowing like a sail
we were basically ok( husband hurt his shoulder and his pride due to being in his bvds instead of his pjs
, my knee is black and blue in 8 inch deep area up and down on the front and sides but i can move it now a little over a week later and nothing is broken)
but has anyone heard of this before? the stakes were in good and some were sand stakes. since the fly stakes had come lose the first time we used the tent stakes for the fly and the longer stakes we had for the tent( from our old tent),,i am wondering if the cabin tent with the fly was just to high and is worse in wind due to the short fly...not that it was a bad storm, i've been through much much worse and never had my tent fly away. we of course now need a new tent due to the mangled stakes and a rip in the cloth but while i like the room i am nervous to get another cabin one, this is the first one we have had like that with a rain fly( most have had solid roofs) and i don't know if that is what the problem was or not. we did find a stake loop ripped off but not sure where or when it happened during the fiasco....and it's not like we are tiny people, husband is a 6 ft solid guy and i'm 5 '7' and not skinny..
we got a new cabin tent, 14x16, nice big screened porch/room and a rainfly. only thing was the rain fly only came down about 2 ft past the end of the roof and when it was at all windy , the rainfly would flap around so much it would pull out the stakes...ok, first set up, lasted 4 days, finally got the stakes to not come out with the fly. couldn't get a weekend ressie so forced ourselves to stay at an ocean front hotel in cocoa
, came back and set up again and the last night the winds were gusting around 20mph...( according to rangers) and the rainfly stakes stayed in but the thing was flapping around and expanding and contracting...i said to hubby, do you think we are safe in here since we saw lightening in the distance he said "yeah, i think so, if it starts to storm we'll go to the car." no sooner than the words were out of his mouth a gust came, ripped the entire tent and 16 stakes out of the ground and threw it and us on our queen sized double high air bed 10 feet through the air and crashing into our car( thankfully it was parked there since we were heading towards big trees otherwise). husband was on left side of bed so he was hurled through the air, i was more dumped and dragged along with the tent with the air bed on top of me...it took 8 grown men holding down the tent( thanks to my screams of panic due to being claustrophobic and stuck in a tent in the dark with a mattress on top of me they heard me all over the campground and came running) to help us get out..it was blowing like a sailwe were basically ok( husband hurt his shoulder and his pride due to being in his bvds instead of his pjs
, my knee is black and blue in 8 inch deep area up and down on the front and sides but i can move it now a little over a week later and nothing is broken)but has anyone heard of this before? the stakes were in good and some were sand stakes. since the fly stakes had come lose the first time we used the tent stakes for the fly and the longer stakes we had for the tent( from our old tent),,i am wondering if the cabin tent with the fly was just to high and is worse in wind due to the short fly...not that it was a bad storm, i've been through much much worse and never had my tent fly away. we of course now need a new tent due to the mangled stakes and a rip in the cloth but while i like the room i am nervous to get another cabin one, this is the first one we have had like that with a rain fly( most have had solid roofs) and i don't know if that is what the problem was or not. we did find a stake loop ripped off but not sure where or when it happened during the fiasco....and it's not like we are tiny people, husband is a 6 ft solid guy and i'm 5 '7' and not skinny..
itless....our lil tents went poof as the rotor blades came on us.........It would have been a good day for depends...let me tell you
Too funny.
