[SCA-BMDL] Semi-OT: Pennsic storm question

[Michael B. Greenstein]

> The question is this: What's the best way to leave up the tent when I 
> won't be there overnight?  Should we leave a few heavy things in it, undo 
> the poles and let it more-or-less be collapsed, but for where it's staked 
> down?

Leave it fully set up and well-staked.  Heavy things in it are a plus. 
Leaving it partly collapsed sounds like a bad idea.  Even the most 
rain-resistant tent is porous; they work by *shedding* rain, and not by 
being impermeable (which is how you don't suffocate when you're inside). 
Leave a partly-collapsed tent in the rain, and odds are strong that water 
will puddle somewhere on it and either run or drip inside.

- Michael