Amazing what money can buy.
Fred, you can confess; you are really doing the long hair - wired - hardened - bada$$ - biker dude and the cobra is just in case. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Warren, did you say you were sending squash to Texas?
Ron, may I suggest one or two of those silver tarps with water jugs as bottom weights. In the wind they flap a little and can take a pretty good beating. The water jugs act like a shock absorber and will allow the tarp to flex if the wind gets really bad.