Almost spring report.

[CHICKDOE]

to njkris, actually our electric usage goes down in the summer. but we're on the annual budget plan so the bills are the same all year. we actually had some snow last night. summers get warm here but not unbearable. a sweasmp cooler is all that is needed. we're up in the mountains at 5,000 feet. yes arizona does have mountains!

[NJKris]

Wow, in my mind Arizona heat is pretty wicked. Glad to hear you are not one of the Purdue oven roasters!

[BarabooBob]

12" of snow this week, 18" on the ground. Low tomorrow night is going to be about -10. Next week maybe in the upper 30's.
I plan on camping in the TT this weekend just for ships and giggles.

[Larry0071]

Originally Posted by BarabooBob

12" of snow this week, 18" on the ground. Low tomorrow night is going to be about -10. Next week maybe in the upper 30's.
I plan on camping in the TT this weekend just for ships and giggles.

Heck yes! Do it and enjoy it!

[JimChow]

I check our TT once a month for leaks, theft etc while in winter storage. We store it mid October to May. Once I found one of the tire covers blew off. Fortunately I found it 2 rows over. I especially check after heavy rain. Expecting several inches of snow here in Michigan tonight. Spring can't arrive soon enough.

[NJKris]

Lucking out in NJ. Will be getting about an inch of rain. Could have been over a foot of snow if it was colder! Been crazy winter here, above normal temps. Haven't needed to break out snow thrower at all this winter. Watch us get buried next month.

[Lillypad4two]

While on the subject of winter inspections and winter preparations...…...
What do you think about extending the slide-out just a few inches - the TT is in a garage - to keep the seals from taking a permanent set? Is this beneficial or just my perception based on years of dealing with different elastomers?

[kenandterry]

Originally Posted by Lillypad4two

While on the subject of winter inspections and winter preparations...…...
What do you think about extending the slide-out just a few inches - the TT is in a garage - to keep the seals from taking a permanent set? Is this beneficial or just my perception based on years of dealing with different elastomers?

No need. When it’s time to think about camping, before opening the slides, a good trick is to rub the inside rubbers with a sock full of talcum powder inside (Johnson’s Baby Powder?) and then, when the slides are out, rub the rubbers you see outside. Talcum doesn’t attract dust like a spray would, and yet keeps the rubbers soft and non-sticking.

[CurtPutnam]

Originally Posted by NJKris

Lucking out in NJ. Will be getting about an inch of rain. Could have been over a foot of snow if it was colder! Been crazy winter here, above normal temps. Haven't needed to break out snow thrower at all this winter. Watch us get buried next month.

When I grew up in NJ (Bergen County) shoveling snow was a huge part of a school kid's spending money. We always had snow days at which my parents scoffed - Dad was from upstate NY and Mom from Iowa.

After 5 winters in Schenectady, NY I maneuvered to get to SoCal. I was totally fed up with the while snow thing. Now, if I want to mess around in snow, it is an hour's drive from here. The beach is about a 2 hour drive or less and true , low desert is a half hour. I've never looked back.

[Lyrd44]

Update. Going on our first trip this weekend. [emoji16]

[Reverse_snowbird]

Originally Posted by Lyrd44

Update. Going on our first trip this weekend. [emoji16]

Hurray! Spring must be here.

Have fun.....

[NJKris]

After 5 winters in Schenectady, NY I maneuvered to get to SoCal. I was totally fed up with the while snow thing.

Hell of a price to be snow free! Kids shoveling snow, lol, that's a laugh. I think that died after the 1980s.

[Iwritecode]

Originally Posted by NJKris

Hell of a price to be snow free! Kids shoveling snow, lol, that's a laugh. I think that died after the 1980s.

Believe it or not I actually saw a couple of kids walking down the street with snow shovels after the last snowfall we had just a few weeks ago.

I think the difference today is there are so many local guys with plows on the front of their trucks that do plowing as a side job that it's just as easy to call one of them and have them plow out your driveway in just a few minutes.

I go on Facebook and find 5 or 6 of my friends advertising just such services every single time it snows.

Numerous times I've had a guy that just happened to be driving down my road while I'm out shoveling offer to scrape off the last 5 feet of snow (where it's usually really piled up from the BIG city plows) for absolutely nothing.

I don't have sidewalks in front of my house either. Just a little 15 foot walkway from my door to my driveway. By the time the kids are out, there's nothing left for them to shovel.

[rockfordroo]

I think the other issue is that there just aren't as many kids around anymore. "Most" of us here are baby boomers. There were tons of kids around our neighborhoods when we were growing up.

Now not so much. On the street where MY kids grew up there my two kids and two more a house over. Total of 4 on the street; 3 were girls.

[NJKris]

They're still there. You just don't see them outdoors anymore because their noses are in their phones, or tethered to a video game.

[rockfordroo]

That's true, too, but the US birthrate is below 2.0 these days. It was over 3.6 when I was growing up.

[Iwritecode]

Originally Posted by rockfordroo

That's true, too, but the US birthrate is below 2.0 these days. It was over 3.6 when I was growing up.

Yep. In our school district while I was in HS and a little bit after they were adding on to the schools and opening new ones almost every year.

These days they are consolidating more and even closing a few. There is a school that is just a few blocks from my house that was grades K-6 about 30 years ago. Then when my girls went it was 1st - 3rd. Now they are talking about turning it into an administration building.

[hobienick]

It depends on where you live. It took me mo the to find a decent house in my price range for the school district I am in. That was 2 years ago. There are about 10 kids on my street ranging from K-6 and another 10 in high school. There are 4 or 5 more "pockets" like that in my subdivision. This extends to many other subdivisions in the school district. We have 4 high schools, 4 or 5 middle schools and elementaries everywhere. They need to build more.

There are new subdivisions being built everywhere. The a enrage wait for a new build is almost 12 months.

As for kids being inside. Not always. The K-6 kids on my street are outside year round, unless it's raining hard, almost every day. It is fantastic.

I live just north of Columbus, OH.