The Family Adventures of Do-It-Yourself Camping in a Thunderstorm - 0 views

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  #1 Gray Refsgaard on 10 May 13

   

  My family really heavy duty vinyl tarps wanted to go camping last summer and decided we would go to Cape Henlopen so we could camp, go to the beach and fish all at the same place. Our children also really enjoy the hiking trails located throughout the park, which is perfect when they are tired of the boardwalk. Because it was off-season, we had the ability to get a camping site right away. We packed our camping gear, some hiking and fishing stuff and we were on our way. When we finally arrived, we were amazed when we opened up our camping tent to see enormous holes that were in it. Most of us wondered how this might happen until we realized we allowed our next-door neighbors to borrow our tent and they must have gotten caught in a storm one night. We, however, did not wish to turn around and head home but we couldn?t find a shop that sold tents in Delaware that was within a 20-mile radius. It was then that we knew we needed to get imaginative.
  Luckily, we had brought several poly tarps for fishing and camping. With a lot of ingenuity and patience we began getting branches, rocks and everything we might salvage from our old camping tent. It was then we took stock of each and every poly tarp we brought to the beach. My husband had thankfully brought every tarp he bought when our hardware store had poly tarps for sale. We had plenty of materials to make a camping tent and then some. While we knew it wasn't going to be the most appealing tent in the world, my household was happy that we were still camping.
  We started by laying down two blue poly tarps on the ground to make sure we did not get any dirt or sand in our sleeping bags. Then we connected them to a brown poly tarp, and a canvas tarp using rubber tarp straps. We then secured the blue waterproof tarps poly tarps to the ground with rocks and pegs that we still had from our old tent (not every little thing can be as good as we had wanted). Finally we covered the whole thing with waterproof canvas tarps to keep the rain out. It wasn't pretty but it was dependable vinyl tarps for sale and we can easily use it for a week after we used the rods and pegs from our old outdoor tent and some strong branches from around the camping spot.
  Then the storm came. I have never seen my husband fix anything as rapidly as he did when he threw duct tape on every blue poly tarp, hay tarp and rubber tarp strap after he heard thunder in the distance. Somehow he managed to protect every nook and cranny in the camping tent to make sure not even a drop of water could come into the outdoor tent. The next day we looked around us and saw that everyone else in the park had actually retreated to their vehicles after their tents had actually flooded that night. Our poly tarp tent, branches, duct tape and all, had stood victorious amongst the camp.

   

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