Awning tie down ropes

I haven't had an electric awning on a camper yet. But I can tell you that years ago, we were camping outside of Detroit and a storm came up so quickly that if my awning had been tied down, I'm fairly certain that it would have been damaged before we could have untied it and gotten it rolled up. As it was, there was enough wind that as my wife was trying to hold the awning tube down (while I was trying to get it down), the force of the wind lifter the awning and her off the ground. We were lucky enough to get ours down but several campers lost their awnings. Ever since then, when we're not at the camper, the awning gets taken down, and with newer electric awnings...why not?

We do have an electric Sunsetter awning at our new home, and the wind sensor is great. On our next trailer....which should be in the next 6 months or so, we'll definitely opt for an electric awning with wind sensor.