More snow coming!
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Topic: More snow coming!
Posted By: Leo B
Subject: More snow coming!
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 7:38am
UGH! supposed to get another 7-12
inches today and tonight. all on top of the 10-14 we got Sunday thru Monday
, no podding here for a while  ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2025 Ford Transit Camper van 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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Posted By: ParPod
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 2:12pm
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Yeah...two storms back to back! You guys are really getting hammered.
Here, with our unusually warmish temps, hopefully we're on the path to the long slow melt into spring....no flooding that way. Stay close to home! On the bright side we're getting closer to podding time. ------------- Bob&Margaret 2017 179 2016 Toyota 4Runner 2 sets of Golf Clubs |
Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 3:07pm
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snow, oh how I miss snow!! hogone ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2023 F150 2017 HD Streetglide CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 4:37pm
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We have gotten over 2 feet since Monday, Could send you a couple of truck loads. 5.5 hours in two day with myThe banks along our side yard are close to 6 feet high. trusty snow blower.
------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2025 Ford Transit Camper van 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 8:33pm
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Sounds like fun, Kind of neat to go inside the pod, with the heat on of course and look out and see snow up to or above the windows, we have done that here in northern Michigan. Makes for one of those unforgettable dates. Good thing your snow blower works! That is one thing I make sure is good to go after my last use of it, usually in mid or late March. Inspect/check belts, change oil. Don't do anything with the gas as I use RV gas, the stuff we used to buy in the 60's and 70's before they added ethanol. Great octane and goes a lonnnnng time before turning sour. My leaf blower only gets used in October, when done I will fill it with RV gas and it is good to go until the next October. This year when I got it out I put it on choke and gave it one pull, started on the first pull, pretty good for an old leaf blower.
------------- God's pod '11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 9:31pm
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Hopefully, it will all be a memory by the time we head up to Vermont this summer. At least you are getting snow and not ice. We had ice in January. It wasn't fun. No-ethanol gas is just the thing. There is only one station in town that sells it. It costs a lot more than regular, but my small engines do much better. I do use Sta-Bil in it though. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: cjscinta
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2017 at 9:51pm
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Sorry for the thread hijack but speaking of snow, what is the best way to determine when it is safe to dewinterize? Aside from the area of the country you live in do you all use long term temp projections of some sort? Look at the weather channel? Farmers almanac? What if I think it is safe and I dewinterize and then we get a cold snap? How vulnerable am I really to toasting my plumbing system? If it freezes up does that necessarily mean damage to the system? ------------- 2017 R-pod 179 |
Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 5:46am
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oh my leo, hopefully the freezer has plenty of walleye in it!! hogone
------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2023 F150 2017 HD Streetglide CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 8:10am
When the weather is no longer expected to do more than dip below freezing at night. The Pod's plumbing will survive an overnight freeze into the 20's if there is heat in the pod just fine. Mine has done so. The heat will keep the pipes inside from freezing. If the fresh water tank is full, it takes more than an overnight freeze to freeze up. It would take an extended freezing spell to do so. On our last trip, we had a full tank and encountered freezing weather across Texas. The water line (probably the line from the tank to the pump) froze. It did thaw the next day with no harm. The flexible pipe can flex unlike copper or rigid tubing which can't. Those tend to split. Practically speaking, if you are not expecting to use it, then wait until you get ready to make your first trip to dewinterize. Then you won't have to worry about it. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: cjscinta
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 9:37am
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Thanks Stephen. Great info. ------------- 2017 R-pod 179 |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2017 at 11:27am
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Jon, can't go fishing.....
to much snow, can find the ponds!!!!! The ole farmers almanac was right about this year!!
------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2025 Ford Transit Camper van 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2017 at 5:18am
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upper 60's to mid 70's here for next 3 days, yikes. hogone
------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2023 F150 2017 HD Streetglide CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: rda54
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2017 at 2:48pm
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We are in the upper 50's to the 60's this weekend. ------------- Ronald & Lonna 2014 178 2016 Chevy 1500 |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2017 at 7:12pm
Supposed hit 41 tomorrow........will have 6 foot banks of slush
------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2025 Ford Transit Camper van 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |