Jaime,

Thanks for the sentiment. On the topic of the tie-downs, it seems that when a wind hits something (H16) "just right", bad stuff can happen - despite the best laid plans.

It gets me to thinking about the famous video footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge occilating 10-20 feet in the wind before the catastrophic collapse - I`ll bet the enginner for that project is serving fries these days. But, as I recall, the whole incident was only possible with a very specific velocity and direction of wind - precisely what was required to expose a weakness in the engineering. Unfortunately for the engineer, the price of technological progress can be quite high sometimes. Fortunately for me, my H16 is undamaged, and...well...it is still just an H16 and not a bridge!

...other than that, it seems the doggie tie-downs really do work just fine...until they don`t.


Dave