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[Roaming_Eagle]

That's a scary story.  So glad your alarm worked and woke you.

 

I'm a big advocate of sleeping with a window open.  I was just camping at -13F with a wind chill on top of that and I slept with a window a 1/4 way open.  I try to open the passenger side window to lessen the chance of CO gas from the furnace entering the camper.

 

I'm not a big fan of opening the turn buckle doors when sleeping as I hate the thought of a mouse getting in.  I just had one crawl up me on the trip I was just on.  I was eating chips and watching Netflix in a cook house with a stove.  Things were pretty cozy until the mouse crawled up onto my t-shirt.  It freaked me out.  I woke up that night freaked out and it's been on my mind a few times since then.  So gross.

 

I learned the hard way not to leave the access panels open when one night I had a squirrel come eat my food and sleep with me on the couch.

[JimBow]

I put the top down in strong wind recently, and slept in the front dinette area. I do not feel comfortable in the bed when the wind is blowing hard toward the front of the truck. There is a lot force trying to push the roof down, and if you were in the bed when it came down, you could get hurt. The only thing really stopping the roof from coming down is that snap on the wooden strut thing.

I’ve also had fun trying to get the roof down in strong wind. I live in notoriously windy Wyoming.

[BillTheHiker]

I slept with top down last Thursday because of severe t-storms. my biggest concern was lightning, but was I really any safer? Probably not but until someone explains otherwise will stick with this strategy.

BTW, I was near Bemidji, MN and the storm front moved slow so storms lasted almost 3 hours from 9pm to 12pm, but wind was never strong. Lightning was essentially non stop. 2 tornadoes touched down on Upper Red Lake about 30 miles away.

My fridge was not working next day -coincidence? Fan was blowing cool air and fridge temp kept rising. New Truckfridge under warranty and they shipped a new one to nearby FedEx Shipping center.

[craig333]

I wondered whether I'd be safer with the top down as lightning struck nearby but I wasn't about to go outside during the storm. I still wonder about that.