DSDP Don wrote:
I just took a second look at your username....made me laugh!!!
The main reason we began searching for a motorhome is because our entire family was camping in tents when completely clear skies turned into sheering winds almost instantly, knocking 200 foot pines onto our camping area. This was at Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania. One minute it was hot as can be, the next I heard the wind and saw the trees bending horizontally way off in the distance... I frantically rounded up the kids (there were 25+ of us altogether), and no sooner put my oldest daughter in the van when I heard a crack, turned around and saw the pine coming right at us. That's the tree in this link
news article. The second photo shows 4 of our tents. The popup camper was not ours, but as you can see the tree landed in between the tents. My step-daughter and her baby were in the one on the left, my friend, his wife and their baby daughter on the right.
I'm not much of a fan of camping in a tent amongst trees any longer.