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karen37

17/7/2011 at 5:04pm
Location: Weston Super Mare
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As newbies to caravanning we were looking forward to a 2 night stay at a local site to try out the awning,its our sons 8th birthday so he was having a friend and so was our daughter,count me and hubby and my mum ,so the awning was well needed.So we go off on saturday morning to local play park for sons party,left the site in heavy rain but all pretty calm. On our return later we arrived to see our awning up and over the top of the caravan,ripped to shreds,poles all bent and really a disaster . Thankfully some neighbouring campers tried to retrieve anything and make best of a bad situation.So is the lesson to learn,always put the storm strap on whatever the weather because this is certainly what we have learnt.As they say in hindsight you would have. Lets hope its a smooth operation if we can make a claim :(

Karen

hondagirl

17/7/2011 at 5:43pm
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aww sorry to hear that, its always a worry when its windy. You just reminded me gave our storm straps away with the last caravan...better look into that then!
hopefully a straight forward claim, what m,ake was the awning?
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jeff juke

17/7/2011 at 5:47pm
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Sorry to hear that but ive always used storm straps no matter the weather, be prepared.

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17/7/2011 at 5:50pm
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sorry to here about your awning, we put our strap on what ever the weather as it can change quite quick in the night.

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17/7/2011 at 5:57pm
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What a shame your caravanning career has got off to a bad start, I hope it hasn't put you off. We nearly lost our own once, even with storm straps on. We were in Spain one winter and a gale got up in the night. OH had to spend the night literally hanging on to the awning and it was ok, but a few other people lost theirs. I'm still nervous when the wind gets up and you can hear it creaking!

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michael

17/7/2011 at 6:02pm
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sorry about your awning,only talking about this yesterday.i would not after our experience over the years not use a storm strap full time.this is whatever the weather.hope you get it sorted soon.

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Jusy

17/7/2011 at 7:10pm
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Sorry about your awning. We always put our strom straps on no matter the weather.

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karen37

17/7/2011 at 8:41pm
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Thankyou for replies,we will definately be putting storm straps on the new one.We have a week to get one as off to Lyme Regis on Saturday for a week.

mrs numnuts

17/7/2011 at 8:58pm
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what horible luck
have a look on ebay i have just picked up a lovely awning dorema one for 100 quid just hope it fits my van...should do but you never know

karen37

17/7/2011 at 9:07pm
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Thanks mrs numnuts will have a look,when we work out what size it is as there is no info with the caravan

craig b

17/7/2011 at 9:35pm
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wow i only asked the question yesterday regarding awning tie downs, we are deffo getting some now.

sorry to hear about what happened hope the items inside the awning and the caravan are alright.

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michael

17/7/2011 at 10:31pm
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http://www.cuddles.abelgratis.net/sterling.htm

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D S B

17/7/2011 at 11:49pm
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Yes, I'm with everyone else on this. Always put the storm straps on, especially is we are leaving the site.

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18/7/2011 at 8:43am
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sorry to hear your news, if you are going to costal sites in the future you could also consider thisvideo

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karen37

18/7/2011 at 6:32pm
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Well we went out today and got ourselves a cracking awning,TWO STORM STRAPS, and they threw in a matching ground sheet too. Didnt want to risk second hand (no offense) so we got a brand spanking new one. Needless to say in all our years of camping and now caravanning its always been second hand ,and we are really excited about having something unmarked by anyone else. Hopefully in the future we can get brand new caravan

Karen

generalhawk

18/7/2011 at 9:10pm
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Sorry to hear of your disaster but you seem to be taking it well. I wont join everyone else in saying I always use the storm straps (but only because so many have said it already)

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