In a tent, in a forest, in thunder and lightening.

[GingerWrath]

We are booked into a site for a the weekend. I have just seen the forecast for where we are going is thunderstorms on friday...

I have told DH we are still going. Am I mental?

Sirius how miserable for you :(

thanks MisSal!

Blimey, never knew that OYBBK. I have family in Missouri so I am well experienced in tornadoes.

x-post Sirius,

no fraid not, though I can't see the any pattern changing from what we have at the moment sadly.

Gingerwrath - def a different scale (though most US tornadoes are weak too)

possible tornado in manchester

Well, I've scared the crap out of myself learnt a lot reading this thread. Maybe I should have waited til I'd had my first pitch!!!

It has been interesting though.

Hope those of you away are having fun.

Well I am alive. Just got the tent up, no guy ropes secured and the heavens opened!

Sent DH out to get soaked and finish pegging out. Sat for an hour in an empty tent to wait for the rain to go before unloading the car!

Oh dear! Glad it stopped :) we now have wind and sunshine, no rain hurrah! No camping though :(

oh dear Gingerwrath - sounds like a camping trip that needs much wine!

Instead of leaving Friday night as planned, we pitched first thing on Saturday morning instead... and the weather was brilliant! A couple of drops just as we arrived, but it soon dried out so a lovely trip was had by all. Thanks for all your predictions, Kitten - I probably would have cancelled complete trip otherwise.

Well done! (The best camping night I ever remember is aged 20 in the Bois de Bolougne just outside Paris, raging storm all night, our tent held up, but, judging by the shrieking in Italian nearby, others didn't - can't remember any of the other night of that trip .
Also, one night a few years back, in Dorset, when DS1 (then 9) insisted on having his own tent, I was awake almost all night listening to the storm, worrying about him, and fitfully fell asleep about 6am, to be woken by him cheerfully opening our tent flap. He was fully dressed - I said, groggily, 'well done getting dressed', he cheerfully said, 'oh well, I went out earlier in my pyjamas and got wet, so have nowput on the dry clothes'. In his tent we found a big puddle under his sleeping bag where the tent had leaked - he had been oblivious and slept thru' it all... Memories are made of this...

I am really pleased MisSal :) our turn next weekend, so I hope we are as fortunate!

lol at your ds MrsG :)

Brings back memories of dd, probably 4 or 5 at the time sleeping in the little bedroom at the other end of the tent. We had quite bad gales and the tent was moving round a lot. I heard some wimpering over the noise of the wind and rushed over to dd and unzipped her end. She looked very scared at us and said trembling:
'Terrible things are happening in here'.
Poor love, not only was she being battered by the flapping tent but a wasp had also somehow got in.

Will keep my fingers crossed for you. Had to laugh at your dd - poor thing, can just imagine, but they can say the funniest thing at times! Aww.