minn camping family wrote:
.... The next day we went to town, well a bad storm came up and when we got back our awning was wrenched up and over our new camper. Rookie mistake of ours, but I still wonder why no-one could put it up for us in our absence, we were surrounded by people on all sides and this is the land of Minnesota nice where we look out for each other.
Managed to get the awning bent back forward and rolled up, then zip tied for the trip home.....
We had a tornado warning AND touchdown in the CG I was staying at.
Sadly I watched my neighbors TT roof and sides being beat do death by the loose awning poles he had unhooked to try and put his awning up which where now slamming repeatedly against the top and sides of his TT from the wind.
To my surprise another camper ran up to it and took a buck knife and cut the awning loose to stop the wind from using it to slam the poles against the TT. :E
In retrospect cutting and having to replace the awning fabric DOES trump having your whole TT deemed totaled. He did thank the fellow camper for thinking so fast to do so.