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When finally the rain did hit it hit so hard and so fast that it created a leak inside the tent that I had and that I thought was
somewhat waterproof .

Unfortunately it came into the corners as I would say river turtle and then form itself going at a diagonal across the floor
to the back of the tent where I had to cut a hole in order to create the exit point for the river itself which then filled up the
sand underneath and created a lake both inside and outside of the tent.

The rain came down so fierce that it went through the rain fly so internally I created an inside roofing from two tarps.

I also had taped up the northern side of the walls on the outside with a tarp but unfortunately the rain came down so hard
that within I would say two or three hours there was probably at least an inch or two and that may not seem like much
when you’re out somewhere else but when you’re sitting on top of a swamp on the other side of the levee next to the
Mississippi River even a half an inch coming down fierce and hard certainly creates a messy situation and flood like
conditions.

So when this hit it wasn’t so much the cold as it was dodging water everywhere as I began to string ropes and began to
move everything off of the floor and create at least a 2 inch barrier for everything that would get wet or could get wet. It
seem to me that all the tents that I’ve had never seem to be able to handle the heavy rains that I run into.

I now have in mind my own set of modifications I’m going to do to a tent that I’m going to purchase even though I like
this big one and I got it at a real cheap price.

I’m going to get a tent and modify it to where it works for me especially on the Mississippi River or anytime I’m
kayaking. Even back home at Utah Lake where we get excessive wind gusts and sustained winds, I needed to modify.