EZ Up Camping Cube in rain?

[KatieC]

I purchased an EZ Up Screen Cube last year to use for sporting events, and did some hot weather camping with it. I really loved it. However, it offers zero protection from the elements and no privacy since it's just a screened in room. There is a tent for my EZ Up shelter called the Camping Cube Sport that would give me some protection from the elements and privacy. However, I contacted EZ Up and they said that while it is water resistant, it is not waterproof and not intended for use in heavy rain. I'm a fair weather camper, but sometimes in summer we can have unexpected storms pop up and I am wondering how miserable it would be in this tent if an unexpected rain storm would come during a camping trip. Can anyone offer some thoughts on this?

[Happy Joe]

Sorry for the late reply;
Unexpected rain happens; hopefully you have seam sealed or gotten a rain resistant tent beforehand.
If all else fails we throw a tarp over the tent some of my more penurious friends simply refuse to get a good dent and rely on tarps over their tents as rain flies.

Mostly surviving rain in a substandard tent is not fun to miserable; its up to you to remedy the situation for next time...
for a while one extremely wet year I ended up making and using a rain skirt on the lower half of my dome. I worked well but, eventually, water started seeping up through the floor... for a while we watched the water come 3 inches or so up on the tent walls but they didn't leak.

My current main tent is a canopy supported standing room tent between the canopy roof and the tent itself (2 roof layers) it hasn't had any rain issues so far.
I do dread a tent shredding hail storm though (crosses fingers).



Enjoy!