High winds - awning and tire problems?

As I said in a previous blog, we had high winds and rain during Saturday night. The wind actually lifted and shook the RV and we felt we were sailing on our boat again. Unbelievable. In the year and half we have been camping we had never experienced that high velocity of wind. Well, shoot - didn't it happen again last night - only wind this time! It's still going on. We think that the awning over the bedroom slider may have loosened up. However, we cannot go down the road at 60 miles an hour with a loose awning. If that's what is going on (it's still too yucky out for Dave to check) we will have to try to get it fixed before hitting the road. Maybe we won't be leaving tomorrow as planned. If Dave can't tighten up what ever is going on - then we will have to call someone to come out to do it. We have a name of someone and if we have to wait for another day, fine. Good thing there is no deposit on the next camp sight. (We were leaving tomorrow for Corpus Christie.)

And tire problems? We have been dealing with a slow leak on one of the tires on the left side of the RV. Before we left Vermilion we had the tire pressure checked and one of them was down to 40 pounds - it should be 110! Got it pumped back up, but, we had it checked again here at the campsite by people we met and became friends with (we are following them down to McAllen - near Brownsville in a week or so) and the same tire was down 20 pounds. They gave us a name of a tire company that will come to you and they did yesterday. Found a nail in that tire. Thank goodness that scare is over. We also found out that the tires on the RV are one of the best we could have had on. This means that we can avoid the thousands (many) of dollars for tires we thought we would have to put on before the end of the year. Yeah - sometimes good things happen at bad times! We are good for at least 50,000 miles more. That should help us move around alot more.