Word to the wise - shovel off your roof!

[chris vickery]

Garage in a box or as I like to refer to them POS in a box... Grrr
I learned very quickly at my home that there is no use for these here.
Where I live we always have some sort of wind as our lot sits atop one of the higher elevations in the area.
My first attemp at one of these was when I first moved up here about 8 years ago.
I followed all of the instructions carefully and even lag bolted the legs into
2x8s which also had bags of concrete mix placed on them.
My garage in a box lasted all of 24 hours. Believe it or not, when I came home, all my lawn and garden stuff was sitting in a nice pile which used to be inside my tent. I thought someone had stolen it.
I searched and found my garage all right; it was ripped and torn to shreds and all the frame work mangled about 300 yards in the back 40 from where it once stood.
Guess I should have learned when the boys trampoline suffered the same fate earlier.
My garage sale canopies also met the same demise. Set up on Friday night and Saturday morning- gone. Never did find where it ended up.
So, in the end I learned that here, unless it is made of concrete, wood and steel it does not get erected.