That mess tent reminds me of a night long ago when a careless excavator operator cut through several telecom cables beside the northbound railway line from Brisbane, including the coaxial cable providing television coverage to the north of the state. The NRL grand final was coming on, so there was a rush to get the thing fixed.
An enormous steel framed breakdown tent was erected over the job. It wasn't secured to the ground as it seemed absolutely immovable. A freezing westerly buster (wind) was blowing all day and night, so we were glad to be working inside the tent.
A little after one o'clock in the morning, we heard a sort of roaring sound above the general moaning of the wind, and thought it must be some sort of train approaching. It turned out to be a huge gust of wind which lifted the entire tent, frame and all, at least a foot off the ground, then dropped it with a shuddering thud.
Not knowing what to do about it, we just kept working. Proper scary though.
