All the tents on our site were hit, so I do believe it was a fair side-by-side comparison test. My tent was a large Sears Hillary 4 person dome, and as you can see from the photo, it was trashed like many others. Based on how the fiberglass support rods ripped through their sleeves and shattered, it think the self supporting fabric dome must have been distorted until it tore and the rods broke. The survivor tents were the Walrus model Warp/2+2 Expedition, a very low, 2 person tent. I don't know the North Face model. Staking might also have helped because the one tent that was staked to the heavy picnic table was not a high-wind design and it survived. All three of the surviving tents, however, reported that the tent ceiling came down and squeezed them for several seconds, then popped back up intact. And my Pontiac Transport did quite well :-) If it hadn't been for my tentless comrades coming to knock on my door to alert me to what happened, I might have nodded off again in my cozy van ;-) -- Al Vazquez KayakGuide.com tm the Place to Share Kayaking & Canoeing tm *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 19:02:50 PST
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