IBTripping
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Because of some personal problems, I was forced to delay leaving my campsite in my resort to my usual site south of here. Then, Monday morning's projected snow was 3-6 inches. Instead, it was one and a half feet of heavy wet snow. Temperatures were in the low 20s with a low of 14 F. Major North-South I-95 was shut down for about 14 hours with traffic stranded on the Interstate. All local roads and highways were were extremely slick and icy. Numerous vehicles including tractor trailers were in the ditch all over the place. Police were inundated with hundreds of vehicle crashes. It was awful.
Electricity was out in large areas including my resort. It is not likely to be to be restored here until next week. Trees were knocked down on all the roads in the resort. And, I'm stuck here.
Fortunately, I had 4 full tanks of propane. I had dumped the black and gray tanks on Sunday and put RV antifreeze in both tanks. After the snow on Monday, I covered most of the windows with blankets and sheets. I wasn't worried about having propane heat. I have a large 122 amp hour house battery, but didn't know how long it would last running the heater fan. So, I turned off all the lights (all LEDs) to preserve the battery. I also set the thermostat at 55 degrees to lessen the drain on the battery and lessen propane use. I also used jumper cables from my running truck to recharge the house battery.
I used LED lanterns and an LED headlamp for light to preserve the house battery. I limited use of my phone to preserve its battery. The worse part of the whole experience was boredom. I had only 2 books to read. One is a Michael Crichton novel (very good read) and the other is a rather dense tome on social policy by Daniel Patrick Monynihan. After reading both, I reread the novel.
Guess the maintenance crew got all the trees removed blocking the resort roads because I saw my neighbor got in to check out his fifth wheel. I went over to see if he needed any help. He had winterized his RV and was in good shape. I told him my situation and he offered to lend my his 3800 watt inverter generator. THANK YOU JASON. With the generator, I now have plenty of electricity to to run my space heaters, charge the house battery, charge my phone, watch TV, and use the Internet. Whoopee!!!
Let me finish by commending the Forum and its members. Because of you, I was well prepared to be boondocking in winter. By the way, 5 inches of snow is forecast for tonight and Friday's temperature is projected to be very cold getting down to 10 F.
EDIT - SOME MOTORISTS WERE STRANDED ON I-95 UP TO 27 HOURS.
Electricity was out in large areas including my resort. It is not likely to be to be restored here until next week. Trees were knocked down on all the roads in the resort. And, I'm stuck here.
Fortunately, I had 4 full tanks of propane. I had dumped the black and gray tanks on Sunday and put RV antifreeze in both tanks. After the snow on Monday, I covered most of the windows with blankets and sheets. I wasn't worried about having propane heat. I have a large 122 amp hour house battery, but didn't know how long it would last running the heater fan. So, I turned off all the lights (all LEDs) to preserve the battery. I also set the thermostat at 55 degrees to lessen the drain on the battery and lessen propane use. I also used jumper cables from my running truck to recharge the house battery.
I used LED lanterns and an LED headlamp for light to preserve the house battery. I limited use of my phone to preserve its battery. The worse part of the whole experience was boredom. I had only 2 books to read. One is a Michael Crichton novel (very good read) and the other is a rather dense tome on social policy by Daniel Patrick Monynihan. After reading both, I reread the novel.
Guess the maintenance crew got all the trees removed blocking the resort roads because I saw my neighbor got in to check out his fifth wheel. I went over to see if he needed any help. He had winterized his RV and was in good shape. I told him my situation and he offered to lend my his 3800 watt inverter generator. THANK YOU JASON. With the generator, I now have plenty of electricity to to run my space heaters, charge the house battery, charge my phone, watch TV, and use the Internet. Whoopee!!!
Let me finish by commending the Forum and its members. Because of you, I was well prepared to be boondocking in winter. By the way, 5 inches of snow is forecast for tonight and Friday's temperature is projected to be very cold getting down to 10 F.
EDIT - SOME MOTORISTS WERE STRANDED ON I-95 UP TO 27 HOURS.
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