Monday evening t'storm arrives at OSH

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My tent stayed dry; my buddy Jerry's didn't. He spent half the night in the
airplane (the next night, too).

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

I wondered how all you campers made out! We left part way through the Beach
Boys concert when the Lightning started to flash to the north. Was my 1st visit
and we stayed at a hotel South of OSH and drove in. (wife along)! Hope to
return and fly in next time and camp.

I walked miles on Monday till my legs hurt. You really need 3 days minimum to
see all with out pain.

Anyone know, was that a "John Travolta" jet setting out with the fighters on the
taxi way Monday? Had Capt. J. Travolta on the left side and another name on the
right under the canopy. I am not sure, but think it was an old Vampire.

Ron Gardner

Dan Luke wrote:

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My tent stayed dry; my buddy Jerry's didn't. He spent half the night in the
airplane (the next night, too).

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

My tent stayed dry; my buddy Jerry's didn't. He spent half the night in the
airplane (the next night, too).

Wow, those are some impressive clouds there. Thanks for the pictures.

--
Peter

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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My tent stayed dry; my buddy Jerry's didn't. He spent half the night in
the
airplane (the next night, too).

Nice!

It seems like there is almost always at least one BIG rain during the week.

For those people whose tents do not stay dry, I have found a couple things
to mitigate the "damage."

Have something that you can put your clothes up on, off the floor, like an
old hard side suitcase, or Tupperware container.

Use an inflated air mattress. That keeps you and your bag out of the water,
sloshing in the low corner of the floor.

Usually, it is just a small leak, but it only takes a small leak and a big
storm, and soon you have a half gallon of water to make the "wrong" things
wet, and unbearable.

You know, we really need to get a FAQ Oshkosh list together, before next
year is here - all too quickly.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in
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It seems like there is almost always at least one BIG rain during the
week.

For those people whose tents do not stay dry, I have found a couple
things to mitigate the "damage."

Have something that you can put your clothes up on, off the floor,
like an old hard side suitcase, or Tupperware container.

Use an inflated air mattress. That keeps you and your bag out of the
water, sloshing in the low corner of the floor.

Agreed. I had a big Coleman mattress and I stayed dry and comfortable,
but after 3 days of rain, the stuff on the floor was getting damp.

Usually, it is just a small leak, but it only takes a small leak and a
big storm, and soon you have a half gallon of water to make the
"wrong" things wet, and unbearable.

Another suggestion (although just a theory at this point!) is to make
sure your plastic ground cloth doesn't extend beyond the edge of the
tent. The sod at OSH absorbs a heck of a lot of rain, but I think my
problem was the plastic cloth trapping some rain rolling off the tent and
then holding it under the tent instead of letting it soak in.

We left Thursday morning, and it didn't rain Wednesday night, but
everything was just incredibly wet from all the condensation. They really
know how to do humidity in Wisconsin!

Mike

We had another big downpour on sunday the 30th. The folks in back of us
in camp scholler had this big tarp under their interconnected tents. You
coul see the water accumulating on the tarp...and not too much later,
you could hear them complaining about the water in their tent!

(we use a pop-up camper...nice and dry!)

We had another big downpour on sunday the 30th.

Yep, it really, REALLY came down this morning, ruining our plans for an
early departure. I'll post some awesome pictures of the gust front
approaching. (It reportededly flipped one plane onto two other planes,
in nearby Appleton.)

We were inside the tent when it hit, holding the windward side up with
our feet. Despite this, the 6-foot tall tent collapsed far enough to
hit me in the head with the lantern hanging from the center hook -- and
I was laying down!

No further damage, but our neighbors had poles sticking right through
the top of their tent!

A wild end to a great week...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Yep, it really, REALLY came down this morning, ruining our plans for an
early departure. I'll post some awesome pictures of the gust front
approaching.

Lots of red on that 496 wasn't there? :-))

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
We had another big downpour on sunday the 30th.

Yep, it really, REALLY came down this morning, ruining our plans for an
early departure. I'll post some awesome pictures of the gust front
approaching. (It reportededly flipped one plane onto two other planes,
in nearby Appleton.)

We were inside the tent when it hit, holding the windward side up with
our feet. Despite this, the 6-foot tall tent collapsed far enough to
hit me in the head with the lantern hanging from the center hook -- and
I was laying down!

No further damage, but our neighbors had poles sticking right through
the top of their tent!

A wild end to a great week...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

We were there Thursday-Sunday. The storms that came in on both Saturday and
Sunday morning were the fastest moving weather I've ever seen. On Saturday,
we got up, showered, and saw the front heading our way. I thought we had a
good 30 minutes to grab breakfast and get to cover, but the clouds and wind
were on us in 10 minutes or less. Thankfully, there was no rain on
Saturday. Today, the experience was similar - fast moving storms, high
winds, but we got a lot of rain too. My understanding is that the Homebuilt
Cafe tent came down during the storm. We were in the Ace's Cafe, getting
very wet, despite being in the direct center of a 4,000 sf tent. When we
got back to Homebuilt camping, the row of porta potties had blown over. I'd
hate to clean up that mess, but I'd hate it even worse if I'd been inside
one of 'em when it went over.

Once things dried out, we broke camp, loaded the airplane, and headed south
where we saw some REALLY interesting weather. Just north of Aurora, I
deviated west to avoid some building convective activity. We went around a
rain shaft or two, and then I spotted a funnel cloud dropping from the base
of the convective stuff. It dropped 300-500' from the cloud base and
couldn't have been more than 3 miles away. I notified the tower at Aurora
that there was a funnel cloud 5 miles west of the field. This got their
attention, as well as the attention of several aircraft in the area. In a
couple of minutes, the funnel retreated back into the clouds, so I let
Aurora towere know that too.

My most miserable experience from Osh this week was the departure. First,
there was a loooooong line of aircraft taxiing for departure. Second, I got
stuck behind a jet. Breathing kerosene stench for a 20 minute taxi was an
eye-watering experience. Then came my departure. I thought the wind was
straight down 18, but the aircraft which departed in front of me got pushed
way left by a crosswind. Determined not to let that happen, I let the RV
weathervane, then made a horrible bounced (!) takeoff. Uggh.

KB

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:56:52 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:
Use an inflated air mattress. That keeps you and your bag out of the water,
sloshing in the low corner of the floor.

The inflatable air mattresses are great... If the water gets too high,
you just float... I found that the queen size mattress fit my tent
just about perfect... Just enough space left for an ice cooler of
beer...