HUNKERED DOWN IN A SANDSTORM
This is a sandstorm in the Empty Quarter. We are sitting
high up on top of a dune feeling the full force of the wind and
blowing sand.
We often debate whether it's better to be high or low during a
sandstorm, but usually it doesn't make much difference. We
normally remain at campsites for only one night, and it would be
unusual to be forced to move because conditions became too severe.
We have a tent attached to the side of our Defender, so the tent isn't going anywhere. We usually park the car so
it shields the tent from the wind and blowing sand. As you
can see in this picture, our plan didn't work. The wind
shifted during the night and the winds is blowing full strength
into the front of the car and the side of the tent. We piled
gear on the windward side of the tent interior to keep it
from rising up in the wind.
You might think that the wind would deposit sand against the car
and tent and bury them with blowing sand. Actually the
opposite occurs. When the wind hits the tent, it scours the
sand from under the tent on its windward side. One of the
tent stakes in this picture no longer holds down the corner of the
tent. The sand
around the stake was blown away, and all that remains is a scoured
sandy pothole. If all your tent stakes get
uncovered, the tent may collapse on you during the storm.
During one sandstorm, a friend's tent partially broke free from
its anchors and the tent started behaving like a wild animal
jumping, gyrating, and collapsing in the wind. From our
vantage point, it looked like the tent occupants were being
digested inside a voraciously hungry giant stomach.
I once had a dome tent go walkabout in windy conditions, and I had
to chase it across the dunes for over a mile before I caught up
with it and corralled it with my Defender.
Going though a sandstorm in a tent is a bit like going though a
winter blizzard in a cabin. You crawl into you sleeping bag
and hunker down on your camp cot as you listen to the wind howl.
Before long, you close your eyes and fall asleep to enjoy your sand dreams.
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