Did your equipment survive Falcon Ridge?

[john r]

we lost a 10x10 quick up canopy like so many others on the 15 acre site. i ususally bring a much more stable screen canopy but got lazy this year. my dome tent stayed dry throughout, but when i got to it, i thought it had been destroyed - it was almost flat. but it popped back up between gusts, an i got inside. i was leaning forward with my arms out and pams against the way to hold it upright an could feel the hail. one really strong gust actually knocked me backward onto my air mattress. but the tent survived completely dry and intact. we had just taken down the 12x20 main GFP screen canopy. so no problem there. the only other damage was to a leg pole on the shower tent. that tent was holding its own until a flying 10x0 canopy rammed into it, breaking the leg pole. no real problem, though, since i had a similar pole at home that has been reengineered to fit perfectly and a new leg coming in the mail that only cost 10 bucks.

[bxiie]

All our stuff survived in the parking lot though it was touch and go...

http://bxiieq.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/621/

[dogsanddrama]

I had actually driven into Hillsdale for supplies when the storm hit.
I had to wait it out on the side of 22. When I got back to my little 13 foot long hard top trailer, the awning had been mangled and thrown up onto the roof of the trailer. The vinyl part and the roller were ok, but the side arms were mangled and broken. The kind people camped behind me had a handy man truck and were so kind to take the rest of the awning off of the camper for me so that I could drive home. That was the best thing-these neighbors who helped me! I was so lucky to not have been under the awning when that happened or I think I probably would have been injured!

[TyteFystedFolkie]

[quote="louiseo56"]We lost our 10 x 10 canopy like many others - of course we had carefully let down the side panels, no doubt making it a gigantic sail. It was sort of twisted to the ground when we got up to our 15 acre site, with broken (!) 1" square tube steel legs and accordion tubes , but the whole thing stayed in place because our guy lines held. Yea for my sweetie who knows how to tie those circus tent knots! The dome tent was fine all around, just a little leaking at the floor like it gets in any rain. After we packed up the wet site, we went back down to the main stage hill side to try to find our sunshade tent that we'd left behind, but I think it might be in Plattsburgh. We really hoped it hadn't turned into a missle of destruction to anyone downwind - I suspect it was just a sad pile of poles and nylon long before we returned.[/quote]

YAWNNNN.