Three years ago, the week prior to Memorial day, I was at a state park in my first voyage in our new to us, used popup camper. The sirens came up, I tuned in the local news radio station and discovered a tornado watch was out. I watched the skies until it started to rain so bad I couldn't and then all hell broke loose. The wind was blowing the tenting on my dinette slide out into the camper like a sail on a ship. It was covering about 1/4-1/3 of the dinette, tight as a drum and I really thought it was going to rip to shreads.
The popup had four stab jacks all down but it was rocking pretty bad. Never felt it come up off the ground but felt like it could at any minute. I finally got scared enough to lay in the floor of the popup with the dinette cushions on top of me, and praying so quickly I'm certain the Lord was ignoring my pronunciation and reading my mind.
Lasted about 20-25 minutes and found out later a Tornado has in fact passed near us and touched down about 2 miles away, damaging some stick and brinks pretty severly.
Now, I make notice of where the bath houses or shelters are at when I enter a campground and at the first sign of severe weather, we move.
The one and only good thing about the storm, the popup did not leak a drop and I was thrilled that if it could withstand that kind of wind and rain, I had made a good purchase.
