MOTD (Meme of the Day)

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Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
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Me and some buddies took a surfing trip to the outer banks in the late 90’s. We camped for a week in Hatteras. About day 2 we were surfing at Frisco pier and a heck of a storm rolled through. When we got back to the campground our tents were demolished. Our clothes and towels were thrown all over the campground. That picture looks like how I slept the rest of the week. I pretty much covered up with the tent like a blanket. I was 18 and thought it was hilarious. Now days I’d have quit and went home.
 
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Wes said:
Me and some buddies took a surfing trip to the outer banks in the late 90’s. We camped for a week in Hatteras. About day 2 we were surfing at Frisch pier and a heck of a storm rolled through. When we got back to the campground our tents were demolished. Our clothes and towels were thrown all over the campground. That picture looks like how I slept the rest of the week. I pretty much covered up with the tent like a blanket. I was 18 and thought it was hilarious. Now days I’d have quit and went home.
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I've had a few trips like that. We were at Tellico moons ago and we rolled in Friday night. We were waiting on the last guy to show up. This guy had the worst luck of anyone I know. Probably still does. Midnight hits and I hear him blasting up Green Cove. He makes the turn and no shit, it thunders above us. No warning, no flashes, nothing. We had been there for hours. Like someone flipping the light switch it proceeds to pour rain like Niagara Falls as soon as he throws it in park. The tent is proper fucked. We tried to sleep in it that night. The mattress developed a hole and we started to sink. Lower and lower till everything was soaked. We had 1" of water in the bottom of the tent before it was all over with. We tried to sleep in a single cab truck but that was when I realized those aren't as cool as they were in the early 90s. I was in my mid-20s at the time and damn near threw in the towel then. Ain't no way now.
 
Wes said:
Me and some buddies took a surfing trip to the outer banks in the late 90’s. We camped for a week in Hatteras. About day 2 we were surfing at Frisch pier and a heck of a storm rolled through. When we got back to the campground our tents were demolished. Our clothes and towels were thrown all over the campground. That picture looks like how I slept the rest of the week. I pretty much covered up with the tent like a blanket. I was 18 and thought it was hilarious. Now days I’d have quit and went home.
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Gather round children…only 2 weeks ago, couldn’t get a cabin at GER, so my good buddy @BigClay let me and my family crash in the yard at his cabin. We thought it would be a good time to expose the kids to camping. All my good camping gear is well used and partially missing. My wife said she understood the assignment and would get us what we needed (thought I could trust her, she was my primitive camping buddy for a decade…I was wrong). About 36hrs before we hit the road the ‘tent’ arrives. It’s one of those big ass 60 second set up tents. Tell her that’s gonna be no bueno given the expected weather, she swears the reviews say it’s good. Long story slightly shorter, I was right. However, that asshole @CasterTroy made me drink all the likka and @tobaccoroad4wd apparently thought I was a fish. So I stumble my way back to the tent around 1am, can’t figure out the zipper, pass out outside the tent (pic below). My wife lets me in somewhere around 4am…by 6am the heavy storms and wind hit…snaps my tent like a twig. I have to sober up real quick because I have a 6yo, 4yo and 20 month old freaking out due to a collapsing tent in a crazy storm. Get them all tucked in to the Navigator. Then in a stroke of drunken genius decide to wrap up my tent like a burrito and wrap the rain fly around it as best I could…and it 95% worked, very little got wet.

And that’s the story of my kids now asking to do that again because it’s more fun than the beach.

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UTfball68 said:
Gather round children…only 2 weeks ago, couldn’t get a cabin at GER, so my good buddy @BigClay let me and my family crash in the yard at his cabin. We thought it would be a good time to expose the kids to camping. All my good camping gear is well used and partially missing. My wife said she understood the assignment and would get us what we needed (thought I could trust her, she was my primitive camping buddy for a decade…I was wrong). About 36hrs before we hit the road the ‘tent’ arrives. It’s one of those big ass 60 second set up tents. Tell her that’s gonna be no bueno given the expected weather, she swears the reviews say it’s good. Long story slightly shorter, I was right. However, that asshole @CasterTroy made me drink all the likka and @tobaccoroad4wd apparently thought I was a fish. So I stumble my way back to the tent around 1am, can’t figure out the zipper, pass out outside the tent (pic below). My wife lets me in somewhere around 4am…by 6am the heavy storms and wind hit…snaps my tent like a twig. I have to sober up real quick because I have a 6yo, 4yo and 20 month old freaking out due to a collapsing tent in a crazy storm. Get them all tucked in to the Navigator. Then in a stroke of drunken genius decide to wrap up my tent like a burrito and wrap the rain fly around it as best I could…and it 95% worked, very little got wet.

And that’s the story of my kids now asking to do that again because it’s more fun than the beach.

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I'm so sad I missed this 🤣🤣🤣
 
untchabl said:
@DirkaDirka875 and his family had the same experience during that storm as @UTfball68.
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Yeah…when I got up around 8ish…looked like the back half of their tent had caved in. Was actually hoping theirs made it, I liked the size and was the style I was looking for, and wanted to snag one if it did. I reckon I’ll stick with Eureka 3 season tents. First time I ever took my wife (then girlfriend) camping, we made it through a tropical storm/category 1 at Oregon Inlet unscathed…6ft tent was 6” off my nose as I laid flat trying to sleep…but that’s the difference between a $700 tent and a $250 tent, I reckon.
 
#RIPtentmajal

At approxiamatly 0600, there was a major gust coming from the Northeast to the southwest that laid waste to the mobile fabric condominium. (my best weatherman impression)

Yea my wife was up alllllll night watching the weather on her phone so at roughly a quarter til 6, she made us all evacuate the tent to the truck. While we were in the truck riding it out, she asked me if I could still see the tent and if it was alright. I was in a half asleep stupor and just brushed it off and said "oh yea its fine"..... It wasnt. Luckily the clothes didnt get too wet but the mattresses were floating in the tent. Funny thing was that when we were putting it up, someone asked how it was going to go back into the bag. We didnt have to worry about that as it just went straight into the dumpster. Good thing the wife scored it at a deal so it didnt hurt as bad being a "single use tent".
 
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