Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!robert From: robert@uop.edu (Hi how ya doin) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: best design Keywords: stress, wind shear, tents Message-ID: <848@uop.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 22:03:15 GMT Organization: This point in time Lines: 20 After last night's high winds, it got me to thinking (while laying awake thinking the house was about to cave in), what would be the best high wind/rain (oh shit!!) kind of a tent? I sell tents at work, so I am somewhat familiar with the geodesics, and the claims of high wind resistance, etc. Is there any of you "out there" who have experienced a serious storm in a tent, and if so what kind was it? Or should I say, what shape? Also is there any relevance to using glass poles as opposed to aluminum for reduced lightning attraction? *Someone* must have some type of meager statistics on this. thanks in advance! ------ ...mcvax!uunet!mit-eddie!garp!ames!ucbvax!ucdavis!\ ...eunetv!unido!/ ...princeton!rutgers!retix!--uop!robert ...sun!ptsfa!cogent!/