What are your rules for the awning?
Do you leave your awning out when you leave? Do you trust wind sensors? Do you use tie downs? We love the awning's shade and versatility even more in the summer, but we have seen 4 RVs have...
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We leave our awning out with no tie downs almost all the time. We tilt it for rain and lower to the lowest setting during any storms. Now if the wind is predicted to be steady at 25mph with higher gusts we put the awning in,and it would depend on where we are. If we are in an area /state known to have a lot of wind we would just leave it rolled up and not use it. When traveling and stopping for just a night we don't put it out either. Only 1 time in 5 years have we had an upburst suddenly and we were right there to get it in so there was no damage. If we were leaving for overnight or longer we would put it in. I also think there is a difference on what type of awning you have. The newer ones are very light weight and no comparison to the heavy canvas type awnings we have. The weight alone helps hold it down.
