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    tough tarps

    spent the nastiest night in the hammock yet, we had a bad storm roll in last week while i was doing an overnighter at harrington state park north of milwaukee on the lakeshore, had the wbbb and my macat deluxe in spinn, with ahe double ridgline tarp set up, 65mph gusts with a steady 50 mph wind for about 3 hrs rain was an inch about every half hr, i mean this was bad afterwards i changed my drawers could not even tell if it was day or night serious electrical storm, i should have bailed by all rights, the tarp performed flawlessly, got pics of the trees on top of tents nearby, no one was hurt thank god, i stayed dry the incubator was dry and warm, the hennessey tarp that comes with a scout, well thats a loss, wind shredded that, the hennessey was for the daughter who was gonna show the following day thank god she didn't. Thanks brian for a "tough tarp" can't get pics off of phone onto hf. (sorry)

    p.s. later found out tornados had touched down nearby about 30 miles west of me!!!
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    Wild time! Great report.
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    sounds like a crazy storm. i'm glad you came through it ok. very impressive performance from the tarp.

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    Wow, glad you're okay. Now you have an epic tale to tell your grandchildren.


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    Glad that you are safe as well as the others in camp there with you. Great product performance report and one stellar selling point for the company!!!!!!!
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    Since it's come up in another thread and you've got one of the big walled tarps, I've gotta ask; was the Spinn noisy?
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    Well done .... I was in that storm ......
    Impressive!!!!!!
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    Wooo Weeee Do you have a tale to tell?
    You're ok and what an experience.
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    sounds scary!

    email the pics from your phone to your email address. Save them as jpegs to your PC then upload them. I know I'm not the only one that would like to see them

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    Sounds like you got quite an experience. You also got in some serious Tarp Research and Development. I am glad that none of the trees that fell, fell on you.

    I for one would love to see the pictures.

    John

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