Riding Out a Storm Without Power

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May 26, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

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steady curiosity under external pressure

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preparatory — systems inventory mid-storm

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[0:00] hello so I had a different video planned

[0:03] for today I've been working on getting

[0:05] organized in here and I'm like 98 99%

[0:08] there I've been um we had really hot

[0:12] weather yesterday it was so hot it got

[0:14] 85 degrees in here so today I went this

[0:16] morning I went to Lowe's and got some

[0:17] things to put reflecti on the windows

[0:19] and I was just going to show you

[0:20] everything I've been doing with that and

[0:23] then I'm playing another video where I'm

[0:25] just going to take you on a tour of my

[0:26] camper now that I'm organized but the

[0:29] weather's not cooperating ing instead of

[0:30] being super hot today it is just

[0:32] thundering and there's tornado warnings

[0:34] and there's no power and it's been like

[0:36] this for hours and

[0:37] hours so I just thought I would share

[0:40] with

[0:41] you kind of what that feels like I guess

[0:44] it's interesting so one of the updates I

[0:46] want to give is that I'm really going to

[0:49] get into cooking very soon I've been

[0:51] chatting with chat GPT

[0:54] for well for days on this I ordered a

[0:57] bunch of stuff from Amazon I'll never

[0:59] have to use my Pro tank so really happy

[1:01] about that I'll still fill it you know I

[1:03] think that's important to fill it but I

[1:06] I don't even want to cook that way I

[1:08] just just that's not how I want to do it

[1:10] so um I'm getting some things like I'm

[1:13] getting a portable charcoal grill um and

[1:16] then some electrical devices that like

[1:19] do induction heating and then an

[1:21] electric

[1:22] skillet some other things that chat GPT

[1:26] recommended and I just made this chat

[1:28] with it that said look teach me to cook

[1:31] and if there's something I want to make

[1:32] it will teach me step by step what tools

[1:34] to use just down to the little

[1:37] nitty-gritty details that you don't even

[1:39] get in like a cooking book because I am

[1:41] a true novice I thought this was

[1:44] important because I need to be

[1:46] self-reliant right and when I start H

[1:50] traveling

[1:51] west I'm going to be boondocking a lot

[1:54] so I won't have electricity but it will

[1:55] work with my solar power uh I you know I

[1:58] made sure of that I don't know how well

[1:59] we're going to test that while we're

[2:01] here we're going to do a lot while we're

[2:02] here it's all about getting prepared for

[2:04] this this

[2:05] pilgrimage and I'm going to make a lot

[2:07] of videos just showing me cooking stuff

[2:10] because it might be entertaining but I

[2:13] also think it'll be awesome because I'm

[2:14] going to make some really good

[2:15] nutritious food gu I picked a good day

[2:18] for this we lost power here there's a

[2:20] bad storm starting my tent was

[2:23] like seriously big wind gust so I had to

[2:27] secure that better um you know just

[2:31] secured my stuff outside and I'm getting

[2:32] back to this but there's no power and

[2:36] tornadoes in the late morning and early

[2:38] afternoon some thunderstorms May produce

[2:41] damaging winds large hail tornadoes and

[2:44] heavy rainfall late in the afternoon

[2:47] tonight partly cloudy with chance of

[2:49] thunderstorms until midnight then

[2:51] showers with thunderstorms likely after

[2:54] midnight some thunderstorms May produce

[2:57] heavy

[2:58] rainfall for your protection move to an

[3:00] interior room on the lowest floor of a

[3:03] building torrential rainfall is

[3:05] occurring with this storm and may lead

[3:07] to flash flooding do not drive your

[3:10] vehicle through flooded

[3:12] roadways a tornado watch remains in

[3:14] effect until 400 p.m. eastern Daylight

[3:16] time for Central Kentucky so they're

[3:19] warning about flash flooding and I'm

[3:20] actually on a lake I haven't seen the

[3:22] lake but I know it's here

[3:24] somewhere learning some things I guess I

[3:28] could turn some lights on you know I I I

[3:30] have a not only do I have my solar but I

[3:34] have the thing that I plug my desktop

[3:37] and basically all of my stuff into and

[3:40] it has a power supply of its

[3:42] own I use that to get on the

[3:45] internet so I could let my mom know

[3:47] what's going

[3:48] on and you know then I turn it off to

[3:52] conserve it so I'm just kind of thinking

[3:55] through what I should be doing to

[3:57] prepare um for for situ uations like

[4:01] this I'm not sure where the safest place

[4:03] would be in here I was thinking the cab

[4:06] area but you know a lot of Windows up

[4:08] there so probably not probably next to

[4:10] my bed just like in the center of the

[4:12] camp room maybe

[4:15] so if something were to happen I'd be

[4:17] grabbing this cat and I guess you know

[4:21] you got to think about this in

[4:23] advance I got my little no radio I I do

[4:27] suggest you guys get one of those if you

[4:28] do this LIF out it's awesome you know

[4:31] it's got an antenna it can it

[4:33] can um charge itself through solar you

[4:37] know it basically will work anywhere and

[4:38] and it just has a weather band so that

[4:41] you can always find out what's going on

[4:42] with

[4:44] that I think Bailey's okay you

[4:47] definitely want to be calm cuz you know

[4:50] they sense that sort of

[4:52] thing

[4:53] um but you know have your stuff powered

[4:56] up you know charged up and

[5:01] I don't have any food that that I could

[5:03] eat that you know without cooking it so

[5:06] I guess that's another thing you want to

[5:07] think

[5:08] about cuz I haven't even eaten

[5:11] today no power so you know probably just

[5:15] going to read my Kindle I just started

[5:17] reading Game of Thrones

[5:20] again really not much else to

[5:23] do I could have just removed that reflec

[5:25] to so much more light that way Ba's just

[5:28] hanging out with me

[5:30] we're fine I'm sure we'll be fine they

[5:33] should tell you what they're saying so

[5:35] wind GS up to 90 M hour the torrential

[5:39] rain that's the expression they

[5:41] use um thunderstorms and they've been

[5:44] spotted in a couple areas they're saying

[5:46] tornado warning I think I'm not sure

[5:49] about this area a lot of the counties

[5:51] it's actually where I used to live so my

[5:54] parents are in Michigan right now I'm

[5:55] going to check on their place and their

[5:57] cat tomorrow they took Oliver with them

[5:59] to

[6:01] Michigan um but their other cat Luca is

[6:03] at home so I'm just going to check on

[6:05] that you know tomorrow morning just to

[6:07] make sure that everything's good

[6:09] there

[6:11] um I don't know I guess

[6:14] just I mean there's not much you can do

[6:17] right so just going to read a book there

[6:20] three tornado watches right

[6:23] now but I don't know what county I'm in

[6:25] so that's another thing make sure you

[6:26] know what county you're in that's an

[6:28] important thing to know

[6:30] so that's how I secured my power box I

[6:32] think I did a pretty good

[6:34] job so quite a few campers left today

[6:37] and I was surprised cuz tomorrow's

[6:38] Memorial Day and you would have thought

[6:40] that they would have stayed till then

[6:41] right they obviously knew about the

[6:44] weather I got to get better about that

[6:46] cuz this isn't the first time I've said

[6:48] that where you just need to know what's

[6:49] the weather going to be like I know I

[6:51] say I chat with chat gbt a lot and

[6:53] that's because it's true I was just

[6:55] thinking about it you know that thing

[6:58] just helps me all the time it helps me

[7:00] with lots of things so I think other

[7:03] people probably acquire information from

[7:05] watching YouTube right so but that's not

[7:08] how I do it like if I need to know

[7:10] something I don't search for it on

[7:12] YouTube I just ask CH gbt it gives me

[7:14] the answer and then I can have a

[7:15] conversation with it and you know if I

[7:18] have questions or I think it's a way

[7:20] more efficient way honestly I'm thinking

[7:23] they must turn the power off on purpose

[7:25] you know just as a precaution I have a

[7:27] Sur protector but I know not every

[7:29] everyone does so maybe that's why they

[7:30] do it may they just turn the power off

[7:34] cuz it seems to it seems to happen

[7:35] everywhere I go and it is always you

[7:38] know during weather like this I mean

[7:40] maybe they just turn it off sure what's

[7:42] up with this cat here he seems pretty

[7:45] happy he's

[7:46] purring I don't think he's

[7:48] worried just wants

[7:51] attention right he want

[7:55] attention a little inconvenient because

[7:57] I was going to fix my bed today after I

[8:00] finished with the reflecti I was doing I

[8:02] bought these 1 in I'm not sure what they

[8:06] are I'll get it wrong some kind of high

[8:09] it's not high density foam it's harder

[8:11] than that I don't know what it is but I

[8:13] think it'll work I think it is exactly

[8:15] what I needed to fix this stupid b so

[8:18] I'm really looking forward to that we've

[8:20] been without power for too long so I

[8:22] decided to turn the blue W on and plug

[8:24] my traveli Wi-Fi into it so I can at

[8:26] least get some internet I've got 80 3%

[8:30] battery life imagine that'll last quite

[8:32] a

[8:34] while this is a cool

[8:37] screen I don't really understand all I

[8:39] have is my router hooked up to it so I

[8:41] don't think that uses 120

[8:45] volts I don't know I don't know what it

[8:47] means I was hoping it could give me an

[8:50] estimate of how long it will last for

[8:52] I'll have to look at it probably can

[8:54] right so but it should last a long time

[8:57] it's a lot of battery for just the

[8:59] little router looks like we have two

[9:01] more hours of this there's a tornado

[9:03] watch and it just says rain and then for

[9:07] the next hour Thunder and then the hour

[9:09] after that it drops to 80% chance and

[9:11] then 30% chance hour after that so

[9:15] within 3 or 4 hours this should

[9:17] hopefully we'll have power again I've

[9:20] been busy though I've even in the dark

[9:22] it's pretty dark in here I'm this is the

[9:24] only place I've got any

[9:26] light that reflector is real great at

[9:28] that too

[9:30] but I've been I've been getting so

[9:33] organized here like like yesterday and

[9:36] today I've just I don't think there's

[9:38] not much left for me to do I I'm looking

[9:40] forward to showing you

[9:42] guys my bathroom is perfectly organized

[9:45] I have these shelves that are a whole

[9:47] bunch of stuff I you'll

[9:49] see there's not much left for me to do I

[9:52] was going to fix my bad next my back is

[9:55] killing me like and I've never had back

[9:59] pain in my life so this bed is just

[10:01] killing me I I don't understand that I

[10:04] replace the bed right

[10:06] but just has to be right where right

[10:09] here is just 1 in gap whole thing

[10:14] so it's a very uncomfortable bed but I

[10:16] got something to fix that I just it's

[10:19] got to be dry out cuz I got to cut stuff

[10:21] with

[10:22] um you know whatever those um not

[10:27] scissors you know razor blade but that's

[10:29] a certain kind of razor blade I don't

[10:31] know what they're called that's so sad

[10:34] xacto knife I guess it's kind of like

[10:37] one but yeah so I just got to wait I

[10:44] guess one and a half months of not

[10:47] sleeping you know 4 to 6 hours a night

[10:49] that's it cuz this bed is that

[10:51] uncomfortable $8,000 for this freaking

[10:55] camper and Forest River and probably

[10:58] every other manufacturer in the RV World

[11:01] puts the worst possible bad possible in

[11:04] these

[11:08] things it's

[11:10] unbelievable I do need to learn

[11:12] everything I can about my solar if it

[11:15] can be hooked up to my camper you know

[11:17] all of that

[11:19] like what I can run with it for how long

[11:22] just everything I need to know the

[11:24] details and I need to learn that while

[11:25] I'm here before I leave for Nevada

[11:28] before I start my

[11:31] pilgrimage I'm going to know

[11:33] everything about everything I need to

[11:35] know hopefully chat gbt says I can do it

[11:38] all I have to do is just use an AC

[11:40] outlet and plug it in just like I would

[11:42] to you know sh part my house or

[11:44] something so we'll try that we'll see

[11:47] how that goes see if I can run the

[11:48] microwave with AC whatever probably not

[11:50] for like a great amount of time I'm

[11:52] guessing but it' be good to know what I

[11:55] can do with it I do have out side of the

[12:00] outside of my camper there's some

[12:03] there's a solar hookup I don't know I'm

[12:05] going to have to look at I don't know

[12:06] what the connection looks like but I

[12:08] think all that does is charge the

[12:09] batteries which so that means running

[12:12] the 12vt systems guess I could run the

[12:14] 12vt systems that

[12:17] way that would be cool right um I might

[12:21] charge the batteries too I don't know

[12:23] you know the camper

[12:25] batteries I have a lot to learn I do I

[12:28] never worried about weather when I lived

[12:30] in a

[12:31] house and I was thinking about it you

[12:33] know that's

[12:34] probably a false like sense of

[12:37] security cuz things happen to people all

[12:40] the time entire enre town

[12:44] sometimes nobody really expects it to

[12:46] happen to them I keep thinking that it's

[12:49] like you know it can happen to me can

[12:51] happen to anybody but when you live in a

[12:55] camper you are closer to the elements

[12:57] and it just

[12:59] it

[13:02] feels well it feels scarier

[13:05] honestly there's nothing really

[13:07] happening it's just rain I love rain so

[13:11] I don't know what it is like I guess all

[13:13] the warnings all that stuff on the Noah

[13:15] weather station

[13:18] and everybody leaving you know a lot of

[13:20] people leaving on

[13:23] everybody just feels different somehow

[13:26] but you know maybe it's should feel this

[13:29] way in the house

[13:30] too cuz you really never do

[13:35] know yeah

[0:00] hello so I had a different video planned

[0:03] for today I've been working on getting

[0:05] organized in here and I'm like 98 99%

[0:08] there I've been um we had really hot

[0:12] weather yesterday it was so hot it got

[0:14] 85 degrees in here so today I went this

[0:16] morning I went to Lowe's and got some

[0:17] things to put reflecti on the windows

[0:19] and I was just going to show you

[0:20] everything I've been doing with that and

[0:23] then I'm playing another video where I'm

[0:25] just going to take you on a tour of my

[0:26] camper now that I'm organized but the

[0:29] weather's not cooperating ing instead of

[0:30] being super hot today it is just

[0:32] thundering and there's tornado warnings

[0:34] and there's no power and it's been like

[0:36] this for hours and

[0:37] hours so I just thought I would share

[0:40] with

[0:41] you kind of what that feels like I guess

[0:44] it's interesting so one of the updates I

[0:46] want to give is that I'm really going to

[0:49] get into cooking very soon I've been

[0:51] chatting with chat GPT

[0:54] for well for days on this I ordered a

[0:57] bunch of stuff from Amazon I'll never

[0:59] have to use my Pro tank so really happy

[1:01] about that I'll still fill it you know I

[1:03] think that's important to fill it but I

[1:06] I don't even want to cook that way I

[1:08] just just that's not how I want to do it

[1:10] so um I'm getting some things like I'm

[1:13] getting a portable charcoal grill um and

[1:16] then some electrical devices that like

[1:19] do induction heating and then an

[1:21] electric

[1:22] skillet some other things that chat GPT

[1:26] recommended and I just made this chat

[1:28] with it that said look teach me to cook

[1:31] and if there's something I want to make

[1:32] it will teach me step by step what tools

[1:34] to use just down to the little

[1:37] nitty-gritty details that you don't even

[1:39] get in like a cooking book because I am

[1:41] a true novice I thought this was

[1:44] important because I need to be

[1:46] self-reliant right and when I start H

[1:50] traveling

[1:51] west I'm going to be boondocking a lot

[1:54] so I won't have electricity but it will

[1:55] work with my solar power uh I you know I

[1:58] made sure of that I don't know how well

[1:59] we're going to test that while we're

[2:01] here we're going to do a lot while we're

[2:02] here it's all about getting prepared for

[2:04] this this

[2:05] pilgrimage and I'm going to make a lot

[2:07] of videos just showing me cooking stuff

[2:10] because it might be entertaining but I

[2:13] also think it'll be awesome because I'm

[2:14] going to make some really good

[2:15] nutritious food gu I picked a good day

[2:18] for this we lost power here there's a

[2:20] bad storm starting my tent was

[2:23] like seriously big wind gust so I had to

[2:27] secure that better um you know just

[2:31] secured my stuff outside and I'm getting

[2:32] back to this but there's no power and

[2:36] tornadoes in the late morning and early

[2:38] afternoon some thunderstorms May produce

[2:41] damaging winds large hail tornadoes and

[2:44] heavy rainfall late in the afternoon

[2:47] tonight partly cloudy with chance of

[2:49] thunderstorms until midnight then

[2:51] showers with thunderstorms likely after

[2:54] midnight some thunderstorms May produce

[2:57] heavy

[2:58] rainfall for your protection move to an

[3:00] interior room on the lowest floor of a

[3:03] building torrential rainfall is

[3:05] occurring with this storm and may lead

[3:07] to flash flooding do not drive your

[3:10] vehicle through flooded

[3:12] roadways a tornado watch remains in

[3:14] effect until 400 p.m. eastern Daylight

[3:16] time for Central Kentucky so they're

[3:19] warning about flash flooding and I'm

[3:20] actually on a lake I haven't seen the

[3:22] lake but I know it's here

[3:24] somewhere learning some things I guess I

[3:28] could turn some lights on you know I I I

[3:30] have a not only do I have my solar but I

[3:34] have the thing that I plug my desktop

[3:37] and basically all of my stuff into and

[3:40] it has a power supply of its

[3:42] own I use that to get on the

[3:45] internet so I could let my mom know

[3:47] what's going

[3:48] on and you know then I turn it off to

[3:52] conserve it so I'm just kind of thinking

[3:55] through what I should be doing to

[3:57] prepare um for for situ uations like

[4:01] this I'm not sure where the safest place

[4:03] would be in here I was thinking the cab

[4:06] area but you know a lot of Windows up

[4:08] there so probably not probably next to

[4:10] my bed just like in the center of the

[4:12] camp room maybe

[4:15] so if something were to happen I'd be

[4:17] grabbing this cat and I guess you know

[4:21] you got to think about this in

[4:23] advance I got my little no radio I I do

[4:27] suggest you guys get one of those if you

[4:28] do this LIF out it's awesome you know

[4:31] it's got an antenna it can it

[4:33] can um charge itself through solar you

[4:37] know it basically will work anywhere and

[4:38] and it just has a weather band so that

[4:41] you can always find out what's going on

[4:42] with

[4:44] that I think Bailey's okay you

[4:47] definitely want to be calm cuz you know

[4:50] they sense that sort of

[4:52] thing

[4:53] um but you know have your stuff powered

[4:56] up you know charged up and

[5:01] I don't have any food that that I could

[5:03] eat that you know without cooking it so

[5:06] I guess that's another thing you want to

[5:07] think

[5:08] about cuz I haven't even eaten

[5:11] today no power so you know probably just

[5:15] going to read my Kindle I just started

[5:17] reading Game of Thrones

[5:20] again really not much else to

[5:23] do I could have just removed that reflec

[5:25] to so much more light that way Ba's just

[5:28] hanging out with me

[5:30] we're fine I'm sure we'll be fine they

[5:33] should tell you what they're saying so

[5:35] wind GS up to 90 M hour the torrential

[5:39] rain that's the expression they

[5:41] use um thunderstorms and they've been

[5:44] spotted in a couple areas they're saying

[5:46] tornado warning I think I'm not sure

[5:49] about this area a lot of the counties

[5:51] it's actually where I used to live so my

[5:54] parents are in Michigan right now I'm

[5:55] going to check on their place and their

[5:57] cat tomorrow they took Oliver with them

[5:59] to

[6:01] Michigan um but their other cat Luca is

[6:03] at home so I'm just going to check on

[6:05] that you know tomorrow morning just to

[6:07] make sure that everything's good

[6:09] there

[6:11] um I don't know I guess

[6:14] just I mean there's not much you can do

[6:17] right so just going to read a book there

[6:20] three tornado watches right

[6:23] now but I don't know what county I'm in

[6:25] so that's another thing make sure you

[6:26] know what county you're in that's an

[6:28] important thing to know

[6:30] so that's how I secured my power box I

[6:32] think I did a pretty good

[6:34] job so quite a few campers left today

[6:37] and I was surprised cuz tomorrow's

[6:38] Memorial Day and you would have thought

[6:40] that they would have stayed till then

[6:41] right they obviously knew about the

[6:44] weather I got to get better about that

[6:46] cuz this isn't the first time I've said

[6:48] that where you just need to know what's

[6:49] the weather going to be like I know I

[6:51] say I chat with chat gbt a lot and

[6:53] that's because it's true I was just

[6:55] thinking about it you know that thing

[6:58] just helps me all the time it helps me

[7:00] with lots of things so I think other

[7:03] people probably acquire information from

[7:05] watching YouTube right so but that's not

[7:08] how I do it like if I need to know

[7:10] something I don't search for it on

[7:12] YouTube I just ask CH gbt it gives me

[7:14] the answer and then I can have a

[7:15] conversation with it and you know if I

[7:18] have questions or I think it's a way

[7:20] more efficient way honestly I'm thinking

[7:23] they must turn the power off on purpose

[7:25] you know just as a precaution I have a

[7:27] Sur protector but I know not every

[7:29] everyone does so maybe that's why they

[7:30] do it may they just turn the power off

[7:34] cuz it seems to it seems to happen

[7:35] everywhere I go and it is always you

[7:38] know during weather like this I mean

[7:40] maybe they just turn it off sure what's

[7:42] up with this cat here he seems pretty

[7:45] happy he's

[7:46] purring I don't think he's

[7:48] worried just wants

[7:51] attention right he want

[7:55] attention a little inconvenient because

[7:57] I was going to fix my bed today after I

[8:00] finished with the reflecti I was doing I

[8:02] bought these 1 in I'm not sure what they

[8:06] are I'll get it wrong some kind of high

[8:09] it's not high density foam it's harder

[8:11] than that I don't know what it is but I

[8:13] think it'll work I think it is exactly

[8:15] what I needed to fix this stupid b so

[8:18] I'm really looking forward to that we've

[8:20] been without power for too long so I

[8:22] decided to turn the blue W on and plug

[8:24] my traveli Wi-Fi into it so I can at

[8:26] least get some internet I've got 80 3%

[8:30] battery life imagine that'll last quite

[8:32] a

[8:34] while this is a cool

[8:37] screen I don't really understand all I

[8:39] have is my router hooked up to it so I

[8:41] don't think that uses 120

[8:45] volts I don't know I don't know what it

[8:47] means I was hoping it could give me an

[8:50] estimate of how long it will last for

[8:52] I'll have to look at it probably can

[8:54] right so but it should last a long time

[8:57] it's a lot of battery for just the

[8:59] little router looks like we have two

[9:01] more hours of this there's a tornado

[9:03] watch and it just says rain and then for

[9:07] the next hour Thunder and then the hour

[9:09] after that it drops to 80% chance and

[9:11] then 30% chance hour after that so

[9:15] within 3 or 4 hours this should

[9:17] hopefully we'll have power again I've

[9:20] been busy though I've even in the dark

[9:22] it's pretty dark in here I'm this is the

[9:24] only place I've got any

[9:26] light that reflector is real great at

[9:28] that too

[9:30] but I've been I've been getting so

[9:33] organized here like like yesterday and

[9:36] today I've just I don't think there's

[9:38] not much left for me to do I I'm looking

[9:40] forward to showing you

[9:42] guys my bathroom is perfectly organized

[9:45] I have these shelves that are a whole

[9:47] bunch of stuff I you'll

[9:49] see there's not much left for me to do I

[9:52] was going to fix my bad next my back is

[9:55] killing me like and I've never had back

[9:59] pain in my life so this bed is just

[10:01] killing me I I don't understand that I

[10:04] replace the bed right

[10:06] but just has to be right where right

[10:09] here is just 1 in gap whole thing

[10:14] so it's a very uncomfortable bed but I

[10:16] got something to fix that I just it's

[10:19] got to be dry out cuz I got to cut stuff

[10:21] with

[10:22] um you know whatever those um not

[10:27] scissors you know razor blade but that's

[10:29] a certain kind of razor blade I don't

[10:31] know what they're called that's so sad

[10:34] xacto knife I guess it's kind of like

[10:37] one but yeah so I just got to wait I

[10:44] guess one and a half months of not

[10:47] sleeping you know 4 to 6 hours a night

[10:49] that's it cuz this bed is that

[10:51] uncomfortable $8,000 for this freaking

[10:55] camper and Forest River and probably

[10:58] every other manufacturer in the RV World

[11:01] puts the worst possible bad possible in

[11:04] these

[11:08] things it's

[11:10] unbelievable I do need to learn

[11:12] everything I can about my solar if it

[11:15] can be hooked up to my camper you know

[11:17] all of that

[11:19] like what I can run with it for how long

[11:22] just everything I need to know the

[11:24] details and I need to learn that while

[11:25] I'm here before I leave for Nevada

[11:28] before I start my

[11:31] pilgrimage I'm going to know

[11:33] everything about everything I need to

[11:35] know hopefully chat gbt says I can do it

[11:38] all I have to do is just use an AC

[11:40] outlet and plug it in just like I would

[11:42] to you know sh part my house or

[11:44] something so we'll try that we'll see

[11:47] how that goes see if I can run the

[11:48] microwave with AC whatever probably not

[11:50] for like a great amount of time I'm

[11:52] guessing but it' be good to know what I

[11:55] can do with it I do have out side of the

[12:00] outside of my camper there's some

[12:03] there's a solar hookup I don't know I'm

[12:05] going to have to look at I don't know

[12:06] what the connection looks like but I

[12:08] think all that does is charge the

[12:09] batteries which so that means running

[12:12] the 12vt systems guess I could run the

[12:14] 12vt systems that

[12:17] way that would be cool right um I might

[12:21] charge the batteries too I don't know

[12:23] you know the camper

[12:25] batteries I have a lot to learn I do I

[12:28] never worried about weather when I lived

[12:30] in a

[12:31] house and I was thinking about it you

[12:33] know that's

[12:34] probably a false like sense of

[12:37] security cuz things happen to people all

[12:40] the time entire enre town

[12:44] sometimes nobody really expects it to

[12:46] happen to them I keep thinking that it's

[12:49] like you know it can happen to me can

[12:51] happen to anybody but when you live in a

[12:55] camper you are closer to the elements

[12:57] and it just

[12:59] it

[13:02] feels well it feels scarier

[13:05] honestly there's nothing really

[13:07] happening it's just rain I love rain so

[13:11] I don't know what it is like I guess all

[13:13] the warnings all that stuff on the Noah

[13:15] weather station

[13:18] and everybody leaving you know a lot of

[13:20] people leaving on

[13:23] everybody just feels different somehow

[13:26] but you know maybe it's should feel this

[13:29] way in the house

[13:30] too cuz you really never do

[13:35] know yeah

4:59

Retrieving the Cat, Documenting a Complicated Day

May 13, 2024

9:54

Replacing RV Mattress, Bailey Arrives at Camp

May 13, 2024

3:32

Naming Grief from the Old Life

May 13, 2024

3:51

Recounting Dream of RV Reversal and Boy

May 14, 2024

11:30

Saying Goodbye to Oliver Before Heading West

May 14, 2024

22:59

Securing Shelves and Settling Bailey Into the RV

May 15, 2024

9:55

Assessing Bed Level, Bailey, and RV Build Quality

May 15, 2024

37:07

Organizing the Camper Across Six Hours

May 15, 2024

6:14

Organizing RV Storage and Launching Gaming Channel

May 16, 2024

3:07

Bifurcating YouTube Channels by Interest

May 16, 2024

7:10

Recording Gaming Channel Intro on a Morning Hike

May 18, 2024

1:40

Booking 90-Day Campground Stay for Bailey

May 19, 2024

4:43

Clarifying Channel Purpose While Driving Back

May 19, 2024

4:03

Speaking on Emotions as Energy in Motion

May 20, 2024

1:27

Planning Westward Route to Nevada

May 21, 2024

2:06

Explaining AI Utility After Assisting a Stranger

May 21, 2024

9:15

Breaking Camp in Rain, Relocating with Bailey

May 23, 2024

10:22

Arriving at Bailey's Down Site in Rain

May 24, 2024

4:29

Booking 89 Days and Naming Chapter Three

May 24, 2024

20:28

Planning 89 Days of RV Maintenance and Content

May 24, 2024

13:39

Riding Out a Storm Without Power

May 26, 2024

3:51

Captured Channel Introduction: RV Transition to Nevada

May 27, 2024

5:18

Planning Transition to Full-Time Boondocking

May 29, 2024

8:03

Adjusting Systems for Full-Time Camper Living

May 29, 2024

4:17

Cataloging Kind Acts and Issuing a Challenge

May 29, 2024

3:47

Cooking Baked Potatoes While Listing Reasons for Solitude

May 31, 2024

6:12

Mapping Paternal Pattern and Departure Motivations

Jun 1, 2024

30:18

Cooking Chili While Cutting Ties With Mother

Jun 1, 2024

1:30

Recommending ChatGPT for Exercise and Stretching Routines

Jun 2, 2024

5:58

Cutting Ties With Parents

Jun 4, 2024

6:43

Running Errands and Organizing the RV

Jun 4, 2024

Photos · Jun 5, 2024

Jun 5, 2024

7:37

Outfitting the Camper Against Heat and Humidity

Jun 6, 2024

3:28

Packing Up Camp and Driving Untowed

Jun 7, 2024

5:41

Documenting Equipment Failures After Tire Installation

Jun 7, 2024

3:16

Stating Terms of Visibility to Audience

Jun 8, 2024

3:25

Clarifying Intent and Thanking Supportive Audience

Jun 8, 2024

3:30

Naming the Channel as Video Journal, Reworking Camper Workspace

Jun 8, 2024

10:06

Reconfiguring Camper Layout After Monitor Loss

Jun 8, 2024

6:56

Marking 60 Days on the Road at Camp

Jun 9, 2024

9:46

Morning Check-In on Sleep, Smoking Cessation, Logistics

Jun 10, 2024

PUBLIC

May 26, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.70

Energetic Quality

steady curiosity under external pressure

Journey Phase

preparatory — systems inventory mid-storm

Directional Vector

toward operational self-reliance before departure west

Narrative

The morning had belonged to a different plan. rswfire had driven to Lowe's and come back with reflective insulation film, because the day before the camper had reached eighty-five degrees inside and heat, like everything else, was a system to be solved. He cut and fitted the film across the windows, and by afternoon he was ninety-eight, ninety-nine percent organized — close enough that the next video was already scoped in his head: a full tour, bathroom shelves and all, the camper shown as a finished thing. Then the sky changed direction. Instead of heat there was thunder, and instead of a tour there was no power, and had been none for hours.

So he recorded the condition he actually had. The reflective film that had done its job so well against the sun now held the interior in near-dark, one window left uncovered and carrying the only light in the frame. Outside, the wind had come hard enough at the tent that he went out and secured it again, and secured the rest of his gear, and secured the power box, and came back in. The NOAA weather band radio ran its loop: tornado watch in effect until four o'clock for Central Kentucky, torrential rainfall, flash flooding, do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. He noted the instruction and measured it against the structure he was inside of. The cab had too many windows. The center of the camper, next to the bed, was probably the answer. If it came to it, he would grab the cat.

Between broadcasts he kept working the inventory. He had solar. He had the Bluetti, and when the outage stretched long enough he switched it on and ran the travel router off it — eighty-three percent, a lot of battery for a small draw, though the screen wouldn't tell him the runtime and he wanted the runtime. He had the desktop on its own supply, enough to get online, message his mother, and shut it back down to conserve. He had the radio with its antenna and its own solar charge, the one he told viewers to buy if they were going to live this way. He had Bailey, purring, wanting attention, unworried — and he said plainly that staying calm mattered because the cat would read him. What he did not have was food he could eat without cooking. He hadn't eaten at all that day. He named the gap and moved on.

The cooking was already in motion, in the way most things reached him now: through conversation. He had been talking to ChatGPT for days, had opened a chat that said teach me to cook and meant it literally, novice to nitty-gritty, which tool for which step. Amazon was bringing a portable charcoal grill, induction heat, an electric skillet. He would still fill the propane tank because filling it was correct, but he did not want to cook that way. What he wanted was equipment that would work off solar when he was boondocking west of here, where there would be no pedestal to plug into. He said it directly: he needed to be self-reliant. That was the whole architecture behind a chat about skillets.

There were other unfinished items, and he tracked them the same way. The bed — one inch of gap running the length of it, in exactly the wrong place — had been the afternoon's other project, one-inch foam bought and waiting, needing only a dry moment outside and an X-Acto knife whose name took him a second to retrieve. A month and a half of four to six hours a night, back pain he had never had before in his life, eight thousand dollars of Forest River and the worst mattress the RV industry could install. Instead he would read. He had started Game of Thrones again. Two more hours of this, by the forecast — rain, then thunder, then eighty percent, then thirty — and power back within three or four.

He noticed what other people had known. Quite a few campers had pulled out that day, the day before Memorial Day, when by every ordinary logic they should have stayed. They had read the weather. He hadn't, not closely enough, and it wasn't the first time he'd said so. He didn't know what county he was in, and three counties were under watch. He told the camera: know your county. He wondered whether the campground had cut power on purpose, as precaution, because it seemed to happen everywhere he went and always in weather like this — he had a surge protector, but not everyone did. And he laid out what he intended to learn before Nevada: whether the solar could couple to the camper, what the exterior solar hookup actually connected to, whether it only charged the batteries and ran the 12-volt systems, what he could run and for how long. He was going to know everything about everything he needed to know, and he was going to know it here, before the pilgrimage started.

Then the last turn, made quietly, with the rain still going. He had never worried about weather when he lived in a house. Sitting in the dark with the radio talking about ninety-mile-an-hour gusts, he named that as a false sense of security — entire towns get taken, and nobody expects it to be them. In a camper you are closer to the elements. He said it feels scarier, honestly, and then immediately checked the claim against the evidence: nothing was really happening, it was just rain, and he loves rain. What made it feel different was the warnings, the weather station, everybody leaving. Maybe, he said, it should feel this way in a house too. You really never do know.

Summary

rswfire opens by noting the planned video was replaced — he had intended to show the reflectix he installed on the camper windows that morning after buying materials at Lowe's, following an 85-degree interior temperature the previous day, and to give a tour now that the camper is roughly 98–99% organized. Instead the site has lost power amid thunderstorms, tornado watches, and flash-flood warnings, so he documents that condition directly.

He describes several in-progress systems:

Cooking setup — a portable charcoal grill, induction devices, and an electric skillet ordered from Amazon, chosen so he does not need the propane tank; he has set up a dedicated ChatGPT thread to teach him to cook step by step, stating self-reliance matters for boondocking west on solar.
Power — he runs his router off a battery unit at 83%, cycling it to conserve charge and to message his mother; he states he intends to learn his solar system fully before leaving for Nevada.
Storm readiness — securing the tent and power box, a NOAA radio with solar charging, identifying the center of the camper near the bed as the safest spot, noting he has no no-cook food and hasn't eaten.

He reports his cat Bailey is calm, plans to read Game of Thrones on his Kindle, and says he will check on his parents' cat Luca tomorrow. He states the $8,000 camper's mattress has caused back pain and one-and-a-half months of 4–6 hour nights; foam to fix it awaits dry weather. He closes observing that a house gave a false sense of security, and that camper living sits closer to the elements.

Environment

Interior of a Forest River travel camper parked at a lakeside campground in Central Kentucky, one day before Memorial Day 2024. Power to the site is out and has been for hours; the only illumination in frame comes from a single window, the rest of the glass covered with reflective insulation film purchased that morning at Lowe's.

Outside conditions: active thunderstorm system with tornado watches across multiple counties, reported wind gusts to 90 mph, torrential rain, and flash flood advisories broadcast over a NOAA weather band radio. A tent and outdoor gear have been re-secured against wind. Inside: Bailey the cat, a Bluetti power station running a travel router at 83% charge, a desktop setup on separate battery supply, a Kindle, and a bed awaiting a foam repair. Most campers have already vacated the site.

Substrate

rswfire holds a builder's stance toward mobile living: the camper is a system whose power, thermal, sleep, food, and communication subsystems he intends to know in full specification before the pilgrimage begins. The storm functions as an unscheduled load test — it interrupts the planned content, exposes which capacities exist (solar, battery, NOAA band, cat, book) and which do not (no-cook food, unknown county, unverified solar-to-camper coupling), and he converts each gap into a learning item rather than a threat. The closing move is ontological rather than practical: he states that the house-dweller's insulation from weather was a false sense of security, and positions proximity to the elements as accurate perception rather than increased danger.

Actions

Performed

•recording video during power outage
•reading NOAA weather alerts aloud
•showing secured power box
•showing bed gap and foam material
•switching on Bluetti power station
•plugging travel router into battery
•reading battery percentage and screen output
•checking on Bailey
•reasoning through safest interior location
•displaying reflective window film

Referenced

•drove to Lowe's for reflective window material
•installed reflectix on windows
•recorded 85 degrees interior the prior day
•organized camper to 98–99% complete
•organized bathroom shelving
•secured tent against wind gust
•secured outdoor gear
•ordered cooking equipment from Amazon
•ran multi-day ChatGPT thread on cooking and gear
•messaged mother during outage
•replaced the bed once already
•bought one-inch foam for bed gap
•started rereading Game of Thrones
•observed most campers depart the site
•did not eat that day

Planned

•film camper tour once organized
•film cooking videos
•learn to cook via step-by-step ChatGPT instruction
•cut foam with X-Acto knife once dry
•fix the bed
•check parents' house and cat Luca tomorrow
•test solar output against camper AC and 12V systems
•identify exterior solar hookup connection
•learn full solar capacity before departure
•track weather forecasts proactively
•leave for Nevada and begin the pilgrimage
•boondock without shore power while traveling west

Entities

beings

rswfire — recording the transmission from inside the camper during the outage

Bailey — cat present in the camper; rswfire states he would grab him first if something happened

Luca — parents' cat remaining at their house; scheduled check tomorrow

Oliver — parents' other cat, traveling with them to Michigan

rswfire's mother — contacted over battery-powered internet during the outage

rswfire's parents — in Michigan; their Kentucky property is his to check

places

Central Kentucky — region under tornado watch named in the NOAA broadcast; area he formerly lived in

Michigan — where his parents are currently located

Nevada — stated departure destination that opens the pilgrimage

Lowe's — source of the reflective window material bought that morning

systems

Amazon — supply channel for the incoming cooking equipment

ChatGPT — primary information system — cooking instruction, gear selection, solar questions; explicitly preferred over YouTube search

NOAA weather radio — solar-chargeable weather band radio supplying alerts during the outage; recommended to viewers

Bluetti — battery power station at 83%, running the travel router

Forest River — camper manufacturer named in his critique of factory bed quality

solar array — power subsystem whose full capability he intends to specify before departure

concepts

pilgrimage — his term for the westward journey the current preparation serves

boondocking — off-grid camping mode driving the self-reliance requirement

self-reliance — stated rationale for learning to cook and to know the power systems

Memorial Day — next-day holiday against which the campers' early departure is read as weather knowledge

media

Game of Thrones — Kindle reading during the outage

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

storm

power outage

reflective surface

battery

shelter wall

wind

lake

radio signal

animal companion

westward road

the gap in the bed

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

preparatory (every subsystem evaluated against a future off-grid load, not present comfort)

embedded in weather (camper wall as the full boundary between interior and 90 mph system)

sovereign under interruption (the storm reroutes the recording's content without displacing his agenda)

instrumented (power, battery percentage, forecast hours, county, and interior temperature all tracked as readings)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (solar, battery station, 12V/AC coupling, surge protection, router — the day's central inquiry)

cognitive (probabilistic reasoning about outage cause, safest interior location, forecast timeline)

somatic (back pain from the one-inch bed gap, 4–6 hours of sleep, no food eaten that day)

logistical (Amazon orders, Lowe's run, organization at 98–99%, tent securing)

relational (Bailey's calm read as coupled to his own, mother notified, parents' cat scheduled)

documentary (recording the unplanned condition instead of the planned tour; instructing viewers on radio, county, weather habit)

epistemic (ChatGPT as primary acquisition channel, explicitly contrasted with YouTube search)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

self-reliance

pilgrimage / preparation

power (solar, battery, outage, 12V, AC)

learning everything about everything I need to know

securing / organized

tornado watch / torrential rain

closer to the elements

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