Ok so Gavin and I saw this carport thing at Costco and thought it would be a good thing to have to cover out car from the snow since we had our back window shatter and cave in under the snow last winter. So, we have Gavin's brother-in-law help us by picking it up and helping us set it up on the coldest night in October. Then the next day Me Gavin and Kali finished putting it up. I'd say 8-10 hours in all!!! I noticed there were no stakes or anything to keep it from blowing away and kept telling gavin we'd better get some sandbags or something, he wasn't too worried and said lets go out to Specer and Ralina's for dinner and we'll worry about it later. So, we leave and are gone for about 4 hours and there just happens to be a cold front blowing in and it's snowing when we get home at about 10pm. We come home to find that it had blown off of gavin's car and is now resing on our neighbors house and fence (good thing our neighbor was about 98 and passed away a few months ago otherwise she may have had a heart attack!!) It wasn't even that windy!! So then Gavin and I try to push it back over but it was SO HEAVY!!! I went to all of our neighbors and nobody was home so I went back and mustered up some super pregnant lady strength and we managed to push it back over and take it apart.... There was a huge hole in it from the fence. We loaded up all the junk into Gavin's trunk and returned it to costco the next morning... They didn't even ask any questions it was just a bunch of poles and tarps in 2 carts haha
Then the other week i was at Costco and saw an elderly couple walking out with one... i couldn't catch up to tell them TAKE IT BACK NOW!!!
It's pretty funny now but wasn't at the time.... here are a few pics of us putting it up... I didn't think to take any that night as we were trying to take it down in the strom...
