Somewhere between 9pm and 10pm I think, I had just left the room to hear my wife yelling my name. She heard a big crash in the back yard, and thought a tree had fallen on our out building or something (my office!). We went out to discover the umbrella and Camp Chef flat top out in the middle of the grass, about 10 feet from where they should be. The Camp Chef was upside down!
To make a long story short, once I extracted all the loose stuff from inside the cover, I was able to pull the propane tank and the cart itself out, and set them back up, and then the griddle top, which was upside down and holding the cover to the ground. One brace, across the back of the cart, was bent, but was easily pulled back straight, and I can discern no damage - I cooked on it yesterday.
The casters were NOT locked, and this thing was on some pavers next to the concrete patio by the pool. Best guess is that the huge cover on the grill acted as a sail, and it was pushed off the edge of the pavers, after being hit by the umbrella, and everything went tumbling over.
Take away: lock the casters on your grills if you don't want the wind blowing them around and possibly off the edge of your patio! I was just lucky there was no real damage. I had a friend lose his gas grill as something similar happened and it went rolling down the hill that was his backyard, after it blew off the edge of his patio.
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