The recent past has witnessed the increasing consumer preference and purchase of inflatable tents more for personal use which ultimately is adventurous activities like mountain biking, fishing, skateboarding and backpacking. An inflatable tent is a tent that needs to be pumped up to the pitch without poles, unlike the conventional pole tents. Major advantages associated with the usage of an inflatable tent is its technology that makes the setting up of the tent much easier with minimal help. Also, the punctures in the inflatable tent can be easily repaired although the tent is robust and dura

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — With the permit for Winter Haven expiring in less than two weeks, another temporary tent encampment is opening in Bellingham. The City of Bellingham issued a permit to establish the encampment in the parking lot at the What-Comm Dispatch Center off Alabama Street, opening on April 3. Washington State nonprofit HomesNow! will be funding and operating the encampment for 90 days. They’ll provide tents and amenities for up to 32 people, screening residents through an application process and using a chain-link fence to enclose the area. The city is accepting appeals

After the tent city in a Panama City church parking lot was disbanded two months after Hurricane Michael, many thought that was the end of the tent population. But one Bay County woman took in many of those residents and is providing evidence that a desperate housing problem still exists in our area. Lori Hollaway lost everything to Hurricane Michael and before she knew it, she was homeless. "I tell her the situation that me and my husband are in and how we become homeless and everything and she said ok.

MADISON (WKOW) — Some of those without permanent shelter in Madison are coping with the extreme cold while living in tents on the fringes of the city. A 27 News reporter Wednesday spoke through the canvas of a tent in a wooded area on the city’s east side with a man identified only as Stan. “I’m seventy years old,” Stan said, also identifying himself as veteran who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will keep open through early 2019 a tent city in Texas that now holds more than 2,000 migrant teenagers, and also will increase the number of beds at another temporary detention center for children in Florida. The Tornillo facility opened in June in an isolated corner of the Texas desert with capacity for up to 360 children. It eventually grew into a highly guarded detention camp where, on Christmas, some 2,300 largely Central American boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 slept in more than 150 canvas tents.

The United States Military can be found all over the world. They work hard to protect our country and to stand up for what is right. And, they also work to promote peace. They are found where natural disasters have been felt, where peace has been sought, and where injustice has caused an outcry. They are also found when the safety and security of the United States have been breached. Comprised of many incredibly brave men and women who have chosen to give up their lives for the rest of us, those of the U.S. Military deserve to have some comfort and security of their own as they travel aroun

LEVERING, Mich. — By midafternoon the snow had picked up — tiny, innocuous flecks becoming heavy, wet drops — but no one at Camp Anishinaabek seemed to notice. There were logs to split and shelters to insulate. A supply tent was still down after collapsing two weeks earlier during a storm. “We’ve got a long winter ahead of us,” a woman said as she spread a sawdust path, “so we’re just trying to prepare as best we can.” The modest camp in the woods of northern Michigan is the symbolic base for protesters battling an aging oil pipeline that crosses one of the most environmentally critical loca

One of the largest concerns about an inflatable tent or any tent is how resilient they are in windy conditions. Cause the inflatable tents are not heavy and pack down into fairly small bags for convenient storage and handing.