We completely lost ours. Camping in Marathon, FL Keys and headed down to Sombrero Beach. Absolutely gorgeous day with no sign of rain nor call for it on the local news. We were only on our 2nd day there.
We had taken the bikes down to the beach when the hurricane force winds came, bending the palms nearly flat and raining horizontally. DH jumped on my trike to get back to the campground, but still wasn't in time.
The awning roller was pinched in the middle and both lower brackets had snapped, with the awning covering the door and the entire side of the RV.
Luckily a local rv repair place was able to remove the awning completely and we had no other damage, and insurance covered the replacement awning when we returned home.
Others in the campground were worse off than us - at least 8 RVs lost awning, with one poor soul whose awning blew up onto the roof breaking a skylight so they had interior damage as well.
Live and learn, and now the awning is never out unless our boohynes are parked beneath it!
