I just wanted to relay my first storm experience from last weekend.
To be fair, it was a campout in conjunction with a local minor league team. We could setup tent on the field. The only thing was no staking allowed. That was probably a big part of the problem.
Anyway, it started raining, hard but nothing serious. Then the wind started. To the point where I had to stand in the corner facing into the wind to hold the tent down as best as possible. The other corners were moving like crazy. So there was no structural integrity whatsoever and the rain fly wasn't able to do its job properly either. Needless to say the floor was pretty wet. The worst was the door, which was facing opposite the wind. Water was almost pouring in through the zipper, even though the zipper is covered by a flap. A lot of people ended up leaving. If we didn't have an air mattress to keep us off the floor, we would've had to leave too. I used my sweatshirt to mop up as much of the water as I could. That storm lasted about 20 minutes. It was an uneventful night the rest of the way.
The tent is a Coleman. Not sure of the name. I'd have to look at the bag. It's a hex. It was like $88 at Walmart. We've used it before, but this was its first rain. Again, we weren't allowed to stake into the turf so take my experience with a grain of salt.
To be fair, it was a campout in conjunction with a local minor league team. We could setup tent on the field. The only thing was no staking allowed. That was probably a big part of the problem.
Anyway, it started raining, hard but nothing serious. Then the wind started. To the point where I had to stand in the corner facing into the wind to hold the tent down as best as possible. The other corners were moving like crazy. So there was no structural integrity whatsoever and the rain fly wasn't able to do its job properly either. Needless to say the floor was pretty wet. The worst was the door, which was facing opposite the wind. Water was almost pouring in through the zipper, even though the zipper is covered by a flap. A lot of people ended up leaving. If we didn't have an air mattress to keep us off the floor, we would've had to leave too. I used my sweatshirt to mop up as much of the water as I could. That storm lasted about 20 minutes. It was an uneventful night the rest of the way.
The tent is a Coleman. Not sure of the name. I'd have to look at the bag. It's a hex. It was like $88 at Walmart. We've used it before, but this was its first rain. Again, we weren't allowed to stake into the turf so take my experience with a grain of salt.
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