I never much liked tents. Too confining. If I wanted to stay indoors I would stay home.

Down here in the SE possibly the ultimate shelter is IMHO a 8' by 10' tarp and a few pieces of mosquito netting. In rain and hail it makes a decent shelter set up as lean-to or any of a half-dozen other shapes. When the wind gets strong or there is nothing to support a conventional shelter, or your simply too tired, I simply roll up in it forming a 'burrito roll'.

I once slept through a good part of a hurricane snug in my roll on top of a sand hill and away from trees. The roll has nothing to catch the wind and rain just rolled off. My pack and bots were stuffed into a large garbage bag.

After the storm passed, it took most of six hours for the worse to clear, I hiked out through so many downed trees it was like a bomb went off. A huge area was without power and the normally small streams had jumped their banks.