Slideouts: Benefits and drawbacks

deltabravo wrote:
Tonight is one of those nights where a slideout is a bit of a drawback!!

I was heading east on I-90 in Washington. I stopped for fuel in CLe Elum. I almost parked for the night when I fueled up, but it was only 6:30, so I figured I would continue on for another hour or so.

As soon as I got on the interstate, I could see lighting in the distance. The further east I got, the closer I was getting to the lighting. The weather radar on my phone showed I was heading in to the storm, and the storm was heading east / northeast.... same direction I was traveling. It was getting dark now.

7:45pm, I'm heading down Vantage Hill. It doesn't have that name as an official name, but as long as I've been alive, that's what my family has called it, as well as my friends, etc. It's a 10 mile long descent down to the town of Vantage. I-90 crosses the Columbia River here.

Lighting was getting closer. The wind kicked in and was buffeting me around about the last mile or so of the descent.
Right near the bottom of Vantage Hill, a massive lighting strike (multiple bolts actually) lit up the sky... and blinded me.
I said "enough of this nonsense" and pulled off and am currently parked in Vantage. It started raining as I got parked.

Since my plan is to hit the road not long after I wake up tomorrow morning, I don't want to deal with a wet roof on the slideout, like I mentioned happened at the beginning of this thread, so I left the slideout in. The only annoying thing is the small gap between the table and the bathroom door.

It's 9:15pm now, it's raining hard, and the rig is teetering back and forth from the wind.

Your experience with water coming into the camper from the slide is interesting. So far on our AF we have left the slide out in varying anounts of wind and rain and I have noticed anything. Any further details?