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lushy
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015

What's the worst storm you have been in while camping?

Just curious of everyone's experience with Mother Nature. Here's one of ours. South Dakota in 2011 a storm is rolling in. I'm not one to get uneasy about the weather but this one had me very concer...
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bigcitypopo
Explorer II
Jan 29, 2015
We had one just recently here in December. We were camped at Ocean Mesa. (North of Santa Barbara,Ca) the Pineapple Express came through... 40-70mph gusts... Down spouts...Rain sideways and upside down.... Brimstone and fire... Holy geez. Next morning. Lite mist and all of the other peeps arrived... It was a squal. Unreal...

The kids loved it... I was hoping I didn't have to pull out and get high ground. Luckily the park has awesome drainage...

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