and told her she can park next to my pickup...that went over like fart in church.
Yep had that happen to me more than once lately.
Give some thought to the wind rating of those fittings, and the EMT between them. I used to have (hint) a 10' x 30' tarp frame I used on the side of my house down in the SF Bay Area, and it worked just fine. The wall of the house was on one side, a 5' wooden fence on the other. There was wind there, but it was a very sheltered location. I brought it along with me when I moved up here, and installed it in a fairly open area. I used 1/4" aircraft guys at each upright, anchored to 2' x 3/8" rebar driven into the ground. While I was out of town, a storm with 40 MPH winds came through and wadded that thing up like a piece of typing paper. None of the fittings broke, but not very many pieces of the EMT did; they were either badly bowed or bent like a pretzel.
