= Weather Right Now
According to the instructions, you need to show up with empty gray & black tanks and full fresh! There are hydrants flanking each row basically to the North and South sides. I don't see a water sharing hose setup but my neighbor said he has 200 feet of hose and I'm about a hundred feet from the hydrant. He said all I have to do is ask. Apparently the WIT folks don't want you to setup a shared hose lay and leave it.
Last evening at approximately 2:30am we were awakened by the motorhome rocking back and forth in a pretty stiff wind. We had no idea what the wind velocity was however I quickly set the motorhome to condition "Zulu" and battened down the hatches. We had to bring in both slideouts and fortunately the awning manager made me put up the awning before we went to bed. Scurrying around outside I quickly put away our chairs and got back inside the rig. Lastly I lowered the batwing. Once everything was secured we went right back to bed.
For those of you coming, secure all the stuff on your site before you go to bed and allow your self the option to bring in your slideouts quickly if you have to.
Getting level here in the "E" section had it's challenges yesterday however some of the state rows are even more challenging. I made a rookie mistake yesterday assuming that I could level on stacker blocks but after all my efforts it just couldn't be done. I was so twisted up that my driver's door wasn't even closing well. I observed that the R/R set of blocks I stacked was beginning to tilt and I came inside to pull in the slide. Just about as the slide was completely retracted the rig fell off the blocks.
I threw out a yellow block approximately 35 feet and attracted a group of concerned citizens who gathered around my rig. Most all the weight in this rig including the 800 pounds of water is over the rear axle.
I selected the store position for the jacks and began to retract. The HWH jacks depend on return springs and that work well as it should. The R/R jack stored normally. Now the left rear jacks actually dislodged the foot off of the bottom of the lift cylinder and the springs pulled the foot up inside on the jack framing. Looking at this I'm seeing a cylinder that was fully extended and stuck in the grassy soil.
While the control panel was still in the store position I grabbed the cylinder and spinning it left to right somewhat and applying pressure upward I was able to begin to get the cylinder moving upward. I moved the cylinder high enough by hand so that I could get a lever under the piston. Using my jack pad I lifted one side of the pad and made better progress. I have a 18" long screw driver and using it along with stacking blocks upward I was able to lever the piston back into its bore I was able to completely retract the jack. I grabbed the foot and slid it back in place "TaDa". Reviewing the jacks they look none the worse for the wear.
One of the guys here that came by during the post collapse phase was helpful in suggesting that I try to get cribbing and drive the rig up on blocks. Once Colleen returned from getting Roxy at the boarders we took the car up to the RED barn and located some cribbing. There are a dozen bins with cribbing and its "help yourself". I took a number of blocks and while returning I happened to see one of the parkers and he curiously was holding a spade shovel. I told him about the challenges that I was having in getting level and he said that parking in the "E" section in general was much better than the rest of the campground sites. He then offered to come by and check out our situation. He suggested rather than jacking my way to being level that digging my way in would be a better solution.
Once we got back at the rig, we set a block on the center line of both front tires. I then backed up the rig about 4 feet. On the left side we dug down about 6 inches. On the right side we dug down about 4 inches. We set up 2 blocks under each of the tires on the right side and moving the rig forward and into the divots the L/F went down as the R/R climbed the blocks.
I shut the rig down and applied the E-Brake. The result of the front tire divots plus driving up on the blocks just about placed my rig in a level profile. It was a relief how it all popped into position. Our parker than said all I had to do is basically level a couple of inches one way or another and we would be perfectly level and that's exactly what happened. I know one thing for sure with the wind blowing the way it was last evening I'm sure that it would have blown us off any combination of blocks.
Currently we have all four tires either in or on the ground and up on blocks. No tires are floating.
When you get here you may want to consider my suggestions as I would have appreciated being able to read a piece like this before arriving. Once I leave like any good golfer, I'll just replace the divots and it'll be none to worse for the wear.
I am located on site
E-4-17. You can come by and harass me at any time.
The "iRV2.com Party" is officially listed in the 50th Anniversary Rally Program. We've come a long way ......
Although I don't have numbers to support this, it is likely that we are one of the top 5 largest groups here at the GNR. I have seen quite a few iRV2 stickers.
Colleen and I will be attending the party. Please stop by the registration table on your way in to pick up a name tag. I have a number of sharpies and I think we'd all like to see our real names and our iRV2 screen name on the ID. I was told already that a good number of folks that don't know iRV2 will be coming as well so let's make those folks welcome.
