Nightfall and Continued RV Struggles

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Surviving Texas Winter Storm 2021 in an RV: No Power..No Fuel..What Happened? (90s Newell Coach)

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On Wednesday morning, the owner wakes up to find the power cut again around midnight, confirming his suspicion that rolling outages are ongoing. He manages to turn on a Ryobi light bar to navigate in the dark bathroom, finding that the water is still running because he left it dripping. He notes that the roads are still covered in snow and ice, with no snowplows operating. He also observes significant ice buildup and leakage under his RV, requiring him to use a tool to chip away ice from a damaged drain cap and icicles from various connections. He emphasizes that the damage is annoying but not catastrophic, consisting mainly of slow drips rather than major bursts, and hopes for repair videos once the thaw begins.

Goal: Manage RV systems and minor damage during continued power outages and freezing conditions.

Tools and materials

Ice Scraper — Chipping ice from RV components
Ryobi Light Bar Ryobi — Providing illumination during power outages

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content now there's now midnight and they just cut the power again kind of figured this would happen but it being on this long was just long enough for me to upload my last video which was cool uh luckily these actually signs are like battery powered or something and we can take this light bar into the bathroom and like put it up on the on the stall barriers because it's dark in there but the water's not frozen because i kept it running yeah pretty pretty crazy but it doesn't matter because the generator is still on and it dumped like another almost 40 gallons of diesel in the tank literally almost have about a half tank in that thing now and a half tank in this thing is a lot so we're good to run for the next several days if they keep doing this starting to snow again man it's going to be in the mid mid-20s tomorrow so it shouldn't be as bad did he pee good still no poop oh boy it's now 8 45 on wednesday the power on the building is still on they shut it off around midnight last night and i woke up 4 25 in the morning to pee and it was back on so i think that the rolling outages now are being relaxed they're having this industrial park stay on uh at least long enough for these guys to like you know do some work during work hours because you know they're off at midnight fire back up at four in the morning people get rolling at five bakeries and stuff in here so uh there's a lot of stuff going on even overnight there's people working but it's not right now the road is completely covered in snow it has been all day because it's no more last night there's no freaking plows here because why the heck would texas buy and store snow plows when they never ever ever ever need them and just you might hate on them but it makes sense why would you spend money on that when you literally never need something ever i've definitely got some water leaks that are happening um like i said before they're not significant but they're leaving icicles underneath the thing and we're gonna knock them out when this thoughts we're definitely gonna have some plumbing repair videos that's for sure simple stuff it's not gonna be a detriment to living or the usability of this thing it's just gonna drip and it's annoying so thankful for that it could be a lot worse it could have been a hard breakage to totally disable the thing that's not the case supposed to be up to 32 tomorrow which is awesome because that means the heaters down there will not have to work very hard to keep things from…

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