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Kaydeescoolcamping

25/3/2015 at 5:05pm
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Quote: Originally posted by purplebean on 25/3/2015

Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 25/3/2015
... Unless it involves snakes, of course... then I'd be off like a shot... and yes, of course you can keep my Karsten, if you wrap it up yourself, cos' I ain't coming back!!!

Does anyone have a snake I can borrow?

plastic one in the toy box, could look real though with a length of fishing line on it's tail

Kids safety/ people safety first, tents can be replaced!!!
Never left a tent at night before but wouldn't think twice to get the kids in the car and sit it out in the car if it was getting dangerous. Slept in one once which was gie blustery thankfully it was just 2 adults and we could bale easier and quicker, when you have kids with you the decisions need to come sooner.

Mucker1884

25/3/2015 at 6:43pm
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Quote: Originally posted by purplebean on 25/3/2015

Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 25/3/2015
... Unless it involves snakes, of course... then I'd be off like a shot... and yes, of course you can keep my loo bucket, if you wrap it up yourself, cos' I ain't coming back!!!

Does anyone have a snake I can borrow?

Oops... Bloody predictive text!! GRRR!

Still, all correct now!
Apologies for any confusion!

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Trekkin Tekkie

25/3/2015 at 6:50pm
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spose I'll have to cancel my on-line order for a bucket of snakes...

purplebean

25/3/2015 at 7:38pm
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I'm not the only one who saw what you put Mr Mucker!!!

I cannot believe you would treat a Karsten so shoddily!!

ANGEDAWS

25/3/2015 at 8:19pm
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Just my opinion here and I havent read the other thread - but are we talking about setting up camp, sitting in the tent during the day and going home at night to sleep in your bed, then coming back to the tent the next day?

Mmm, each to their own, but why bother? Why not just camp when the weather is better/warmer?

het and ben

25/3/2015 at 8:39pm
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We had our tent for a weekend of camping while we setup a festival which was taking place the following weekend. The decision was taken to leave the tent standing for the week and drive the 4 hours home. We left it empty and had only our group of tents their. The landowner said he would keep an eye on things and happy with us leaving stuff. No bad weather was forecast.....
However on returning home I became obsessed with the weather. I worried the whole week and couldn't wait to get back and make sure all was OK. I would never do it again. I would never leave it on a public site for all the reasons above. I would never sleep either with the worry of leaving everything in bad weather. Much rather deal with what I can while I was there.

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25/3/2015 at 9:00pm
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It was my post, and to put everyone's slightly outraged minds at rest it was a tongue in cheek comment and we would never abandon ship. We love our folding camper far too much to leave her on a campsite alone at night so if there was really bad weather forecast and we thought it best to leave we would take her home with us. As any responsible camper would.

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We camped in very high winds last year, quite scary, but never at any point would I have considered leaving everything there, I literally daren't. We just strapped everything down, added extra ratchet straps from the trailer and double guyed everything. Like I say, very scary!! We got some minimal damage to the tent, but we survived!

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NickH

25/3/2015 at 10:12pm
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We caught the tail end of a hurricane from the good old US of A a few years back when down on the Lizard in Cornwall. Three days and three nights with very little sleep. All guys cross pegged with storm pegs, Extra storm pegs acquired after night one from the camping shop in Helston. Car and windbreaks repositioned and battened down to give some protection.

Turned out that wind speeds of 60mph were recorded at RNAS Culdrose up the road.

Best advice we ever received before buying our old tent was get a steel poled one when we said where we would be camping.

Tent survived as we did, some very minor damage from rubbing, nothing that needed repairing.

Would not have survived if we had not been there as we were banging the pegs back in every hour at its worst.

All part of the camping experience!

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geoffprinter

26/3/2015 at 7:44am
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Really awful weather. One good kick of the centre pole, tent is collapsed and laying flat on the floor. Then sod it were off.

moonstone

26/3/2015 at 7:57am
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we had three days of torrential rain and gale force winds on one holiday in Snowdonia a few years back...the winds were so strong that it would have been impossible to take the tent down safely...there's no way we would have abandoned our tent so that we would be safe and dry and get a good nights sleep...we stuck with it, re-hammered tent pegs and adjusted guys at all hours of the day and night...very little sleep was had for 56 hours...

by the end of the three days our tent looked like Gulliver in Lilliput with the amount of guy ropes holding it down...we used up every single spare one we had...!!...our wooden pole windbreak snapped in 4 places so had to be discarded but the tent stood strong, apart from a slight twist in a roof pole...i dread to think how the tent would have ended up without us there to look after it...

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Mucker1884

26/3/2015 at 8:42am
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Quote: Originally posted by Squibbler on 25/3/2015It was my post, and to put everyone's slightly outraged minds at rest it was a tongue in cheek comment and we would never abandon ship. We love our folding camper far too much to leave her on a campsite alone at night so if there was really bad weather forecast and we thought it best to leave we would take her home with us. As any responsible camper would.

Sarah,
I guess when I read your initial post, I wasn't sure how far your tongue was in your cheek! Neither did I know whether you are a "responsible camper" or not, so thanks for clearing up both points!

I sincerely hope I didn't put you on the spot... my intention was to try and keep this generalised, (which in the main, it has, thankfully!) as opposed to hunting you down and lining you up in front of the firing squad!

Nothing personal, I assure you... and thanks for responding.... and for putting our minds at rest!!

Yours sincerely,
Mr Rouge.

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If it were life or death choices, whereby the neighbours were upping and leaving also, then yeah, I'd leave the tent.

To go home for a warm, no. But then my camping is in France and home is a heck of a way away.

We've had some pretty stormy nights and not once did I think of abandoning. In fact the reason we got the Bear was so we'd had a more substantial tent in case us and the kids needed it.

Over on the Abroad section I remember reading a thread of a member who was leaving their campsite in France due to severe flash flooding, kids, money and passports into car and out of there, that was all they had time for.

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floppy-poppy

26/3/2015 at 11:09pm
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We've also camped in some pretty "awful" weather and talked about, not abandoning ship/tent, but the whole holiday as it rained torrentially for days on end. We were in the Lakes and (bearing in mind this was the Lakes) the campsite owner said they had never seen weather like it.
Winds, well the best for that was in a (excuse my French) a tin tent - our kids were quite small and even OH was worried, so we took it in turns to sleep, just in case. As we sat on the chairs you could actually feel the side of the caravan meeting the hollow of your back.
As you said Mucker, even to return during the day and find things are not quite right is bad enough (as we have discovered).
In answer to your question, no, would never abandon the tent - unless life and death situation. We've both worked too hard to get our kit together and the thought of leaving it to the gods (and our weather gods are sometimes not kind) brrrrr makes me shudder! (With you on the snakes though)

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28/3/2015 at 6:25pm
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Twice in the early 80's in a ridge tent. The weather was so bad both times the ridge pole bent, We de-camped, slung the lot in the car and drove to a B&B. Saw a chap with a frame tent. His roof had ripped off. When he saw how pointless it was, he went inside & turned the radio up full-blast.

*The second year we turned up drenched at the same B&B and they said 'didn't you come here last year?'

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We abandoned the tent once but it wasn't windy at all So the tent didn't pose a danger to anybody. We watched a tremendous lightening storm moving towards us with lots of ground strikes. We were in a very large, open, flat field with one other tent. Both us and the other tent were extremely cobcerned by the number of strikes reaching the ground. While debating what to do our hair was standing on end where there was so much static. The tent at the time was a sunncamp grange with the thick steel poles so there really was only one choice... we got in the car and left pretty sharpish, returned the next morning and continued our holiday.

Would i leave in wind? Not a chance.

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