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how about a thread just for the heroics, terror, laughs, f*** me moments etc
f*** me, that was a storm and a half. there were 6 of us hanging onto the MK/Beds gazebo, and we didn't loose it, although one strut was crumpled.
we even managed to catch a few of the tents in the area, and provide additional ballast for George's plastic palace, which almost folded flat, but didn't fly.
thought it may have made the news as the police and ambulanc were called, but they seemed more bothered about 50 yachts off norfolk, caught in the same storm:rolleyes:
and a big :notworthy to me, for seeeing it coming, and taking my tent down well before it hit:thumbs:
Bah, you were holding on to one gazeabo, we were hanging on to three of them!! :eek: :eek:
Rude Dog
24-07-2006, 10:09
i've lost weight;)
LoL :D
StuartUK
24-07-2006, 10:12
and me, from serious cacking myself !. i was sat in my car (which was my tent actually ! :D ) , even the back of my car was wobbling from the wind, thee most scariest storm ever that was, and yeah, i spotted it coming too, just didnt realise it would be that heavy !. scary watching people just hang on for dear life to stop there tents being blown away, and getting battered by the rain too !
I slept through it all :sleep: Thank fcuk I've got a good quality tent :D
It was the highlight of the weekend, the massive gazeebo on the stand, with aboud 10 people holding onto each side, one side left open, and the BBQ feeding the inhabitants (whilst also smoking them all) :D Such a good laugh in there, and who would believe that, one of the pegged out SXOC banners would survive unattended the opposite side of the stand!!!!!
Hope everyone who used Vez cabs during the storm appreciated it :thumbs:
Duff Man
24-07-2006, 10:29
I spent 10 mins trying to wrestle with the tent next to Dave S and Jesus (formerly known as skyline matt ;) ), couldn't find any pegs left holding it down and it started pulling me along as it turned into a giant kite - had to let go due to lack of pegs to secure it down again and help with the gazebo nearby that was in danger of taking out some cars - crazy! :eek:
I'm sooooo glad I put some fecking huge pegs in for my guy ropes :)
marty_t3
24-07-2006, 10:37
This is what happened to our gazebo area :wack:
Such a good laugh in there, and who would believe that, one of the pegged out SXOC banners would survive unattended the opposite side of the stand!!!!!
:D You didnt see the smacking that me and SM gave those stakes with Jon's lump hammer. Also we had lernt how to put up those banner on stakes after doing the first one near the marqee which was a bit of bodge in the end even though we went back to have anoth go with it.
boynexdoor
24-07-2006, 10:48
Bah, you were holding on to one gazeabo, we were hanging on to three of them!! :eek: :eek:
i was holding 2, mine and Opie oils , and it still lifted us off the floor , Guy from opie had a plain look on his face :indiff: the fear in his eyes lmao , ws just like being in the wizard of Oz movie , i even tried clicking my heals together and screaming i wanna go home lol , glad it never worked though cuz i had a wicked time :D
Myself and martgti6 had to lye down an the side of the tent in a puddle to stop the tent flying away!very scary :eek:
This is what happened to our gazebo area :wack:
PMSL at inflatable Homer in that pic. Such an appropriate expression :D
Daniel san
24-07-2006, 11:18
Storm? What storm? :wack: Saw some horribly grey/greeny looking clouds coming our way, then felt a bit of rain, then sat in the bar for a few hours, so I've no idea what you're all on about :p
PMSL at inflatable Homer in that pic. Such an appropriate expression :D
Yeah thats fantastic :thumbs:
I did wander why you brought it... but it all makes sence now.
--Lorien--
24-07-2006, 12:17
I think the twobrutal tent suffered the same 'almost blowing away' action that the SXOC tent did.
Must admit, I was a bit worried holding down the metal frame of the tent when the lightning was flashing around :D
Stuffing
24-07-2006, 13:36
The two lessons I learnt were:
1. Take your tent down during the day
2. Living 15 miles away from the show is awesome if you need to abort due to seriously leaky tent...
I wish i could've stuck around, but i'd have been sleeping in a puddle, I'll be investing in a storm proof tent for next years event!
gofaster_s13
24-07-2006, 13:37
My el cheapo hallfrauds tent stayed intact and upright during it all myself and the g/f sat inside it to stop it blowing away though she nearly had heart failure at every strong gust
The two lessons I learnt were:
1. Take your tent down during the day
Just buy a decent tent, seriously - they're so cheap nowadays and they last for years. I've had mine 5 years now, it's survived 5 JAE's with no problem - and various other trips away.
Hadn't even staked mine in that well, and it stayed put throughout
Stuffing
24-07-2006, 13:46
mine cost me about £15 2 years ago... So new tent, probably costing a bit more, will be on the way in the near future....
The tent's survived two years worth of camping trips, so i'm not too bothered that it died this time around....
I've just tried to upload the pics I took and found why my camera stopped working after Saturday afternoon - the card slot was full of water :rolleyes:
I was hanging onto the gazeebo on the stand, by the open flap, and my shorts were soaked. I forgot the camera was in my pocket until I went out to jump start someones car :wack: :D
Bayside Blue
24-07-2006, 13:56
My tent was hardcore, I was at farnborough in the middle of a thunder & lightning storm instead closest strike 2 miles away lol. Blew over eventually but still got soaked. Tent managed to hold itself down all day whilst i wasn't there. Maybe the close proximity of the tents in 'camp bayside' helped the situation? :)
That storm was mental, we were out watching the drifting and saw this bugger rolling across the sky!
http://static.flickr.com/68/196330023_e9f05cea66_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-stretch/sets/72157594209002684/)
We jumped under the Marquee outside the drifting arena and ended up being battered with huge rain and hanging onto the marquee with 5 other people stopping it blowing away! Got a couple of free Autoglym T-Shirts out of it though :D
It soon turned into this ....
http://static.flickr.com/60/196330065_1235fc33b9_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-stretch/sets/72157594209002684/)
http://static.flickr.com/64/196330122_6c0ed2b0c8_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-stretch/sets/72157594209002684/)
and we ended up in my car for about 30 minutes until it calmed down enough to run to the tent.
http://static.flickr.com/75/196330177_5da736cd50_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-stretch/sets/72157594209002684/)
Luckily our tent stayed put but the air-vent cover had blown off letting all the rain straight into the sleeping area soaking the sleeping bags :(
We ended up sleeping in our cars that night :D
Dave
we lost two gazeebos to the great JAE hurracain, one of our nice metal framed ones which went to join the GT4 stand (sadly doing some damage on the way :censored: ) and our 9M long one that basically imploded :wack:
My tent was flattened.... stayed pagged down and popped back up when the wind let off though :thumbs:
Lill vid of our 9m one letting go... dont ask why my mate was filming it... lol
http://www.allton-clark.co.uk/uploads/jaestormsmusicedit.wmv
That storm was mental, we were out watching the drifting and saw this bugger rolling across the sky!
http://static.flickr.com/68/196330023_e9f05cea66_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-stretch/sets/72157594209002684/)
Cool picture Dave :thumbs:
The dark clouds rolling in reminded me of Independence Day :wack:
think we all thought the same aitch:nod:
and the way it appeared to be missing the site, then you looked round and it was behind us as well.
ARMAGGEDDON
watched twister the other night. not as impressive!
Card's dried out ok :) My last pic of the weekend :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Ramps/Clouds.jpg
boynexdoor
24-07-2006, 14:32
we lost two gazeebos to the great JAE hurracain, one of our nice metal framed ones which went to join the GT4 stand (sadly doing some damage on the way :censored: ) and our 9M long one that basically imploded :wack:
My tent was flattened.... stayed pagged down and popped back up when the wind let off though :thumbs:
Lill vid of our 9m one letting go... dont ask why my mate was filming it... lol
http://www.allton-clark.co.uk/uploads/jaestormsmusicedit.wmv
the important thing was at least the stella stayed dry :wack: :nod: :thumbs:
boynexdoor
24-07-2006, 14:33
Cards dried out ok :) My last pic of the weekend :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Ramps/Clouds.jpg
love the rear end bumper on the blonde 1 :thumbs:
Luckily most of our tents were ok but the gazebo definatly got taken out. Was a bit of a job at some points holding onto the SXOC stand specially being smoked out by the BBQ :) Good fun though
I went out to jump start someones car :wack: :D
that would be me then , i switched the heated rear window on in the rain with engine running then turned it off later but still had heated rear screen on, for about 30 mins.
felt quite embarressed . thanks again Ramps we appreciated it greatly :thumbs: sxoc spirit rules:sxoc:
kelly-ann,s13
24-07-2006, 14:44
well i only had the outer part of my tent!! when the rain came the inside of are tent had 3inch of water inside and are airbed was floating lol!!
boynexdoor
24-07-2006, 14:46
pmsl same happened to me but the water got inside my inner tent lol so i slept in our drag car lol:wack: :thumbs:
kelly-ann,s13
24-07-2006, 14:57
but thanks to all the guys that put my tent up at well late friday night (good effort for as you were all very drunk) it didnt blow over, tho i did think it was going to at times, so you must of done a good job!
After spending 20 mins knocking pegs into mud to stop the tent blowing away Mrs Alg and I were so wet through that after washingff under a tap I think we were actually drier!!:eek:
Well done to all in the SXOC Marquee, I saw Jolly F shift sideways three feet in the first few seconds as he was dragged across the ground with the first gust:notworthy
It was a cracking atmosphere and didn't dampen anyones spirits in the slightest:sxoc:
It was a cracking atmosphere and didn't dampen anyones spirits in the slightest:sxoc:
Indeed - in fact when the rain started coming down heavy I'd just started dreaming of that fit bird from Lost, improved my mood somewhat :D
Indeed - in fact when the rain started coming down heavy I'd just started dreaming of that fit bird from Lost, improved my mood somewhat :D
lol, Mrs Alg was chilled to the bone, she went and stood next to the BBQ for a few minutes to warm up and I could see the steam coming off her:D
Bloody good job she wasn't in a white T-shirt:thumbs:
Indeed - in fact when the rain started coming down heavy I'd just started dreaming of that fit bird from Lost, improved my mood somewhat :D
All I remember whilst I held our tent from blowing away was you sitting up looking rather pale and holding onto the side of the tent. You really didnt like that storm did you :D
All I remember whilst I held our tent from blowing away was you sitting up looking rather pale and holding onto the side of the tent. You really didnt like that storm did you :D
I think it was less to do with the storm and more to do with the 30 hour hangonver he was experiencing!
I was holding the SXOC stand 'kite' down with others when I got a bit selfish and thought maybe it was time I checked mine and Dave610s tents...
Just aswell. Mine was fine in comparison to Daves which was floating around the site on one remainign tent peg. When I arrived at the tents it was actually on its side! :wack:
And wet inside cos the dumbass hadnt done the zip up on the doors :wack:
My tent even tho the pegs just fell out well i pulled it down stayed up suprisingly well as you can see in the picture, lolhttp://static.flickr.com/75/196330177_5da736cd50_o.jpg
Bloody good job she wasn't in a white T-shirt:thumbs:
I was actually thinking quite the opposeite ;)
I was actually thinking quite the opposeite ;)
lol, so was George I'd imagine;)
I left the sxoc shelter and got a lift off someone in a red s13 to go check on the tents, cheers who ever you were ???, all 3 tents i put up survived and considering one of them was mellon stu's and it was bodged together with the flyshet on in the most unusal way ever, it was rather surprising, the storm was great though
I spent 10 mins trying to wrestle with the tent next to Dave S and Jesus (formerly known as skyline matt ;) ), couldn't find any pegs left holding it down and it started pulling me along as it turned into a giant kite - had to let go due to lack of pegs to secure it down again and help with the gazebo nearby that was in danger of taking out some cars - crazy! :eek:
I'm sooooo glad I put some fecking huge pegs in for my guy ropes :)
That was probably my tent :o
Many thanks for making the effort :thumbs:
Had no idea we would get a storm like that :eek:
I spent half an hour (with many others :nod: ) trying to hold the front of the SXOC marquee from taking off, ending up doing chin ups because I was bored and my feet didn't touch the ground anyway :rolleyes:
When I got back and found my tent it had a fair bit of wet mud inside, so I took it all apart, turned it inside-out and went for a shower with it :wack: cleaned it off quite nicely :D
Shame my sleeping bag and pillow were soaked :(
Bloody good job she wasn't in a white T-shirt:thumbs:
While me, Gary and Barry were trying to remove the pond from Gary's tent we got a comment from I think Gary's misses "Is this the SXOC version of a wet Tshirt competition!" :wack:
While me, Gary and Barry were trying to remove the pond from Gary's tent we got a comment from I think Gary's misses "Is this the SXOC version of a wet Tshirt competition!" :wack:
lol, I blame Carter, he said he was going to sort the rain out, I thought he meant stopping it:rolleyes:
Now I realise he was just fulfilling his wet T-shirt fantasies!
retro2807
24-07-2006, 19:25
My near side front wing got dented badly by a flying gazebo. Peed off now!!!
My near side front wing got dented badly by a flying gazebo. Peed off now!!!
:( That's not funny :(
Dave
Duff Man
24-07-2006, 19:29
:( That's not funny :(
Dave
Considering we had to move that other one to stop it falling on yuor car the night before - that was a close call :(
Fake Ben Taylor
24-07-2006, 20:29
i was one of the ppl pushing against the wind in the sxoc shelter then i thought ' shit james and i left our doors open on our tents!'
a quick and very wet run down proved this and although luckily mine was dry inside due to facing in opposite direction james' open tent faced the wind and rain and had collapsed leaving half his clothes outside:D
so i shoved all his gear into the dry patch under the collapsed tent and made haste back to the shelter for food:rolleyes:
Considering we had to move that other one to stop it falling on yuor car the night before - that was a close call :(
Shit yeah that's a good point! It did fall on my car but luckily only under it's own weight and not a bloody gale force wind!
Dave
I was sober when this happened :eek: It was quite funny seeing two dozen people clinging to the marquee frame and looking slightly worried when someone mentioned something about "lightening conductors" ;)
Massive praise needs to go to GMasterT for venturing outside in the rain several times to move the van and help out :notworthy
Martblusx
24-07-2006, 22:42
It was a pretty impreesive weather outburst for our country. My tent was fine but out Midlands gazebo bought it big time whilst stoofer and sienna were trying to save it, but another cheapo one we had survived with only minor injuries so to speak.
My poor dog didn't like it (flipping wus) as I opened the car door to get my coat out she forced her way in between the back seat and front seat and I had to drag her out, then I opened my tent door and and she jumped in there, straight into the back on to my bed leaving big muddy foot prints - and she's supposed to be a tough boxer dog :rolleyes:
This was shortly before
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038985.PMqeF4JZ.MDW_9181.jpg
and during :eek:
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038986.xrtzMK0K.MDW_9185.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038987.G5JBapVR.MDW_9186.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038988.QtSdDTtR.MDW_9187.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038989.826qIsoN.MDW_9188.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o4/42/600042/1/64038990.vGVR0sq6.MDW_9190.jpg
All part of british camping really :D
wow those photo's relly capture the way that huge black cloud rolled in:nod:
It was really funny watching everyone scatter though:D
jrtuning
24-07-2006, 22:55
i wish i had scarpered down and shut my tent door and picked my clothes up from outside the tent especially as the reain and wind was blowing directly into my open tent :rolleyes: :annoyed: until the front part collapsed that was :wack:
i was busy helping keepin the sxoc marquee on the floor though :sxoc: was quite funny watching some people struggle to reach the poles and i had my arms streched out horizontaly :D
I was quite lucky in one way, I had not long finished fitting my Apex springs, when the big black cloud came over, unlucky in the way my tent collapsed, but lucky as it is reasonably new, even thought affter trying to hold it upright, big thanks to Stea for trying to help, gave up and pulled the poles out to stop them snapping, every thing under the collapsed canvas stay reasonably dry, thanks to those who helped me get my erection up again after the rain :thumbs:
Gary@APT
24-07-2006, 23:02
that bottom pic was my tent!!!!....every bloody year i end up getting wet.....
not next year on off to book a big motorhome!!!!
Dont you meen that was your pond :p :wack:
I was amazed how much water there was in there when we turned it inside out.
While me, Gary and Barry were trying to remove the pond from Gary's tent we got a comment from I think Gary's misses "Is this the SXOC version of a wet Tshirt competition!" :wack:
Hi Yak,
That was Mrs Caleinis quote !! :D :sxoc:
ahhh they had both buggered off into the dry! LOL
GmasterT
25-07-2006, 02:05
Massive praise needs to go to GMasterT for venturing outside in the rain several times to move the van and help out :notworthy
Cheers bud :thumbs:
I dont know why your all refering to it as a storm, the reason I wasnt too bothered about getting wet was because I was more worried about a certain 4 horsemen turning up to claim us all :smash: :wack:
MeLLoN Stu
25-07-2006, 10:46
that bottom pic was my tent!!!!....every bloody year i end up getting wet.....
not next year on off to book a big motorhome!!!!
pmsl :D man i couldn't stop laughing at you and barry trying to put the tent up underwater :D
It's slowly coming back to me now... Massive thanks to little DanS14 for holding onto both my tent and the gazebo whilst I was helping with the marquee :notworthy
Next year, I'll put it up properly :rolleyes:
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