"Jeffrey Voight" wrote in message ...
Wet can be 'solved' by ensuring that your tent is set up on a slight
slope and digging a trench around the tent to channel the water around
it rather than under it.

You ever been to Oshkosh? The only place where there is a "slight slope" is
the drainage swales. The guys who camped there got a rather rude awakening
during the first thunderstorm when the stream came through their tent.

We've had a number of tents at Oshkosh and haven't had one pull up stakes
yet. We just use the regular yellow tent stakes (and we've camped in the
North 40, the Vintage area, Sally's Alley, and Scholler). We did have one
tent start to shred the fabric but she was still stuck down to the ground well.