Pop Up in the Wind

[jimandaj]

Hello forum,

We are newly registered and we are glad to be here.

Our question....we live in windy Nebraska with frequent storms.  We have a Fleetwood Sedona (2002) and my wife gets very nervous that the wind will carry it away to OZ.  My opinion is that it would take a tornado or something similar to blow our pop up away...

Anyone know at what windspeed one should think about cranking down the pop up?

Thanks

Jim and AJ

[dthurk]

These threads may be of interest to you.  We've not experienced extremely high wind conditions ourselves up to this point.  I know others have, but seems most of the heavy posters to the forum are out camping now.  We leave ourselves tomorrow!

http://www.arveeclub.com/showthread.php?t=56435

http://www.arveeclub.com/showthread.php?t=53825

[GrizzlyTaco]

We went for our Maiden voyage over Presidents Day Week-end and the day we got to the Mojave Narrows campground the winds were 45 to 50 miles an hour. Setting up the rear bunkend took a little longer than it should have because of the wind, but once we got it set-up we had no problem. The tent flaps in the wind but we were in no danger of tipping over or anything like that. Beside being windy it was also rainy and late at night it snowed. At night it was about 17 degrees, in the morning the water line was frozen solid. Hows this for a maiden voyage!!! But we did have fun anyway!!!!..........Ed C.  :sombraro:

[jimandaj]

Thank you very much for the responses.....It looks like we are in good shape wind wise....good point about the branches...

Happy Camping

[darkstar]

Had some pretty high winds out here in Colorado the weekend I decided to pop up for the first time this year.  The 45-50 mph gusts bent the shepherd's hook supporting the bed bow.  Had to get another one for $35 from a local dealer who happened to have one in stock.  I found out after all this that Coleman used aluminum to make these things, but began using steel ones in '05.  If my replacement pole gets bent, too, I'll make sure to get the stronger, steel one next time...

[tlhdoc]

I found out after all this that Coleman used aluminum to make these things, but began using steel ones in '05.

They were steel, then aluminum, now back to steel.
 
We have been in storms with 50 mph+ winds and the camper did fine.  Setting up or tearing down take longer in high winds.  Also if you have your door on the side away from the wind it is nicer getting in and out of the PU.

[wkndarcher]

we have been in 50 to 70 mph winds at edger evans sp in tn , the popup shook pretty good and we were long ways with the wind and we did ok but i wouldnt have wanted to be long way against the wind like that