Is anyone due to go camping next week worried our tent may blow away and maybe us with it!!!!

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

So bloody typical all of this lovely weather and as of next week there is a threat of a summer 'potential hurricane' storm. Do I just ring up and cancel

[MJP1]

What where ? We are off to South Devon on Saturday for a week ! I'm off to look at the weather reports :(

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

We are going to Cornwall I really need this break I think might cry if we have to cancel as the prices seem to awfully high this year probably due to the term time holiday ban.

[Guilianna]

I'm off to Wales. No wonder, it usually pelts it when I go. Just take plenty of pegs.

[RiojaHaze]

We camped last weekend and were forecast storms and constant rain but only had a few showers through the night.
Be positive! (Easy to say when you're in a house!)

[Stars66]

Noooooooo
We are camping in Kent. I am fully positive if good weather

[DannyShouldHaveChosenRizzo]

Bollocks.crap. Bugger.
I am off to Cornwall on sat!
And it will be my first time on my own with the DCs.
I can't even put my tent up properly in good weather!!!!!!

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

Oh shit. I will add extra pegs to my list, wine, spare poles, wine, and some wine and anything else I need to prepare???

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

More wine???

[SmileAndNod]

Noooooooo! We are due for our first ever camping week away there's going to be a hurricane ? How are you supposed to camp with three small people in the rain?

I only popped over to camping to ask if any experts have 'a list' for packing. Will add waterproofs to that list then..

[DoristheCamel]

Wherw have you seen this potential hurricane storm forecast?
I have not heard about it yet and am camping for 2 weeks from Saturday.
Do you have any more details as to when or where?

[SmileAndNod]

There is a thread in the weather section with a DM link which says that we are due to get the after storms from hurricane bertha (I think). Who knows.

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

That's the one Smile why oh why oh why.

[DoristheCamel]

Am beginning to feel like our camping holiday is doomed.

We have had one problem after another.

Am praying tge forecast maybe more optimistic for the East Coast.

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

Positive thoughts to wish the storm away

[MyNameIsInigoMontoya]

Take extra-strong tentpegs and some strong washing line or rope. Peg everything down like crazy and use rope to tie tent to hedge/trees/car in all directions. Then drink the wine.

We survived a pretty bad storm in Cornwall 2 years back using this method Nearly everyone else went home but we had nowhere to go!

Still the forecast may well have changed by then...

[Pixel]

What lovely weather is that then? We've just got back from Cornwall and while we had a few decent days it certainly wasn't beach weather and we had one night when I really thought we'd be washed away before morning!

So don't think the weather is just picking on you .

Besides, I've read that the hurricane is a 'possibility' and might peter out over the sea or bypass us altogether, they just don't know, so don't panic just yet.

[Pixel]

Besides, it's what happens at home while you are gone that you should worry about. We got back to find my greenhouse, bike shed and allotment destroyed by golfball-sized hailstones and our telly blown up by a lightning strike...

[BravePotato]

Where and when was that pixel?!

[DoristheCamel]

omg Pixel

I am leaving dh at home so hopefully he can deal with a lightening strike or even come and rescue me and the dcs.

[Pixel]

It was Brighton, monday last week. There was lots of flooding too but luckily for us we live on top of a hill.

[Dickorydockwhatthe]

Oh bloody hell pixel. We have had mixed weather here but not her like that!!

[Tournesol]

We are going camping to Suffolk Coast on Friday. The campsite is on a freaking cliff! What was I thinking? (Oh yes I remember I had drunk lots of wine and had rose tinted specs imagining sitting overlooking the sea and beach).

Please let the forecast be wrong!

[MJP1]

I 2nd that we're off to Devon on Saturday :(

[Pixel]

Ha ha, we left it to the last minute to book (as usual ) and I got fed up with looking at nice places that were booked up, so I told Dh to "just book anything, as long as it isn't on the edge of a cliff" .

[Buttercup27]

Last forecast I watched said the remains of a hurricane will hit northern Scotland as storms. Cornwall should have normal summer weather -rain then- good luck and enjoy the rest !