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If there were others around, why didn't they come to help?  I'd rather have a laugh later, about what could have happened, than watch someone's outfit, and its owner. suffer damage because I sat back and giggled!

I do sometimes worry that our camping fraternity is slowly developing a snooty "I'm alright Jack" attitude, along with most other sectors of society.

I prefer to assist other campers if things look like going wrong, and I would like to think I belong to a majority in this respect.

Bertie.

Quote: Originally posted by Elainef on 05/1/2007

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Last year we were at St. Davids in Pembrokeshire,  we got the tale end of a hurricane coming across the Irish sea.  Everyone was told it was unsafe to tow, so people who were leaving had to stay,

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Surely if it's possible, the best thing to do would be hith the caravan to the car, lash the awning down & hope for the best.

I can see our winters being rough & windy the ay seasons have changed. I alwys put two straps on ours now we've got the built in storm straps. Not much lse we can do.

We were in cornwall last year when stormy weather was forecast one famiy in line with the storm were dtermind not to listen & had their awning wrecked. I guess we've been lucky so far.

BB  

We were at Sumners Pond over New Year and it was very windy. The caravan kept rocking like a ship on a high sea. It was quite scary, but strangely good fun...(?) I had to keep going out to peg the awning down, but eventually gave up and went to bed with my ear plugs firmly shoved in my ears...got rocked to sleep!

However, the awning had come down and had to fix it in the morning, but no damage and I got quite a good nights sleep!!! I will definatly buy some storm straps for future use though!!

Babyd

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We were out at New Year in our Dethleffs 470DL, fortunately on a pretty sheltered CL.  We were worried about towing home in the strong winds up the A1, but it towed better than anything we have had before.  We reckon this is because of the longer A-frame, and the wider axle.