I have 2:
1) before we had our trailer, we were tent camping on Georgian Bay. We had a beautiful waterfront spot. At about 10pm the wind picks up, and I mean picks up. I checked my phone and the weather app said no problems here. I was getting concerned as it was getting really strong blowing everything around. I finally clued in to check the marine forcast on Georgian bay and they had a marine weather advisory warning of gale force winds up to 100km/h from the north, and we were on the south shore. We ended up parking the car in front of the tent for the night to block the wind, but by AM the inside of the tent was covered in a fine grit of sand that was blown off the beach, up the side our tent and dropped inside the netting. We also threw out the what was left of the kitchen tent that morning. This is what made us decide to get a trailer.
2) Last July we were at PEI National Park when Hurricane Arthur blew thru. Power went out in the middle of the night and it rained hard and trees were blown down all over the place. Lucky for us: it was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it got to us, we were in a stand of small pine trees, on the leeward side of the island, and had battery powers. The next AM we had to head home to Ontario. We were driving thru New Brunswick from Miramichi to Grand Falls. This is about 100km of the most isolated highway in Eastern Canada, no cell service, virtually not a single building the entire 100km. There were trees down on the highway continually for about 50km of the drive on this road. I spent about half of the time on this road driving on the left shoulder (with the trailer) to get past all the fallen trees. pic:
