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Originally Posted by sourdough

If it is pouring, and you can't wait, there's not much you can do but pull them in. If I have to do that DW is inside to dry them down as much as possible. We carry extension poles, Swiffer handles etc. She/we wipe down the edges where we can reach then wrap a towel around the attachment on the end of the pole and swab down the middle of the slides as best we can (using a stool). We just don't want a lake inside from the water draining. The seals do a really good job of wiping off the majority of the water, actually to a point that rubbing them down inside is sometimes a little overboard.

If it has stopped raining a squeegee would work just fine I would think.

The amount of water that comes in past the wiper seals isn't enough to be bothered with. We bought our current in the rain, when we pulled in the slides all water went outside, and the surfaces were hardly damp.
Now that we have slide toppers not an issue.