When your life is at stake, "any port in a storm!!!" The times I've been caught out in bad weather folks have been very good about pulling up to a private dock or marina. In several cases I've actually been waved in.

2 years ago I was caught in a very bad T-storm at Brookville Lake in Indiana. As I was running trying to get to the ramp I launched from the guy at the marina waved me in and helped me tie up in one of their slips and gave me shelter in the store. I was very thankful!

I was on Lake Kinkaid a few years back and asked a F&W officer in KY about storms when your on a trolling motor only lake. He told me if I was caught out in a bad storm on that lake that he would not ticket anyone for firing up the big motor to get out of the storm.