{"id":416,"date":"2008-07-04T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=416"},"modified":"2008-07-09T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T13:50:16","slug":"loitering-within-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Loitering within tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last storm has finally cleared sufficiently for me to make an inspection of my tent, and see how it held up to the hurricane-force winds of a true Antarctic blizzard.\u00c2\u00a0 The verdict?\u00c2\u00a0 Admirably, but not without injury.\u00c2\u00a0 Had we been forced to spend the duration of the storm in the tent we would certainly have survived; just as certainly it would not have been comfortable.\u00c2\u00a0 Although the tent stayed secured thanks to the multitude of pegs and two extra stays connected to snow-pickets, the flysheet and several poles could not survive the onslaught of 185 km\/h wind:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blastedtent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-411\" title=\"My tent after the 185 km\/h storm winds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blastedtent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blastedtent.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blastedtent-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos where they are due however:\u00c2\u00a0 despite the ferocious wind the tent was still standing, still pegged down and although there was damage to the flysheet the inner tent was unharmed.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of the explanation is that there was significant built-up of snow between the fly and tent, which created a protective shell around the inner.\u00c2\u00a0 Survival yes, comfort no;\u00c2\u00a0 Antarctica 1, Tent 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last storm has finally cleared sufficiently for me to make an inspection of my tent, and see how it held up to the hurricane-force winds of a true Antarctic blizzard.\u00c2\u00a0 The verdict?\u00c2\u00a0 Admirably, but not without injury.\u00c2\u00a0 Had we been forced to spend the duration of the storm in the tent we would certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}