When we went on our honeymoon last December it was pouring rain in Westport, CA and we had our awning out, so to not have our area "flooded". It was never windy the entire 6 days we were there until one night at 1:30am when I woke up to go to the bathroom and in less than 10 mins a gust of wind took away our electric awning (I heard it ha), yeah that cost us $700. So from now on that baby gets rolled up at night regardless and no tying it down
I do have a 12X12 EZ-Up Tent that we keep in the back of our trailer over the BBQ and bicycles, that gets tied down good !