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Emergency Escape Device

In light of recent events, I've decided to rename "Moose" to EED.

AKA: "Emergency Escape Device."  ;D

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Reply #1 –
We sometimes talk about those issues, also. We bought a house in the country for a place to go in case of a disaster in Houston. We sold the house in Houston and live in the house in the country now. We keep the coach in the yard. It has motor fuel, heating fuel, and water. The refrigerator is cold. We can throw in some food and personal items and leave quickly. We talked about what to do in case wild fires headed our way. We consider whether we might live in the coach if conditions should cause us not to be able to live in our country home. It's comforting to have the EED.
J D Stevens
1997 U295 CAI 36' Build #5085
2002 Subaru Outback
Motorcade 16869
Bellville, TX

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Reply #2 –
Amen to that.  Back when we lived on a barrier island and the latest hemmicane started nearing the Yucatan we'd be really glad for "Homeslice",always ready to roll.  Stranded for hours on 37N no problem, crank up the gen, plug in a dvd and evacuate in style. 

Chuck
"Not so  long ago we were a nation of risk takers, riding five million pounds of  thrust straight into space."  Joe Gresh
Chuck Pearson
1996 U295
2018 Can Am X3 TurboRS

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Reply #3 –
We feel our coach is the same for us, but we call it our lifeboat.  We have it stored inside a warehouse with Bill Chaplin's  U300, 35 miles south of DFW metromess.  We feel with the separation between the house and coach, it is very unlikely to have both damaged in a the same storm event.  We would always have one place to live tomorrow.

This has hit home this past week, as my sister is dealing with her flooded home in Point Pleasant Beach NJ, and still no power scheduled.  What so many do not realize is how many of the NJ shore homes damaged are just weekend or summer places, thankfully.  Her town is 100,000 people on summer weekends, 30,000 summer mid week days, and 3,800 off season.

Her neighbor's 1.3 million dollar home across the street was undamaged, but is empty much of the year, and he has offered them his home for as long as needed as soon as the power is restored.
Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)

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Reply #4 –
Mine is parked next to the house, stays fueled, and ready to go if necessary. When the storms hit Fla in 03 it was an invaluable asset. I also used it to power our well for water for us and the neighbors.
Bruce, Linda, and Macy
Zoey RIP 1/20/19
1999 U295 40' build #5400
2017 silver Jeep Wrangler, 1260 watts of solar on top
Moving around the country

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Reply #5 –
When I could look out the living room window and see our coach sitting there, full of fuel, full of propane, generator ready to start, I felt comfortable knowing we had a place to go to if power failed or we had a situation that made the house untenable. The coach is now about 35 miles away and I am feeling uneasy about not having it here.

Guess I'm having anxiety pains? Withdrawal pains?
A manifestation of the fact that we love our Foretravel and the things it allows us to do?
Nitehawk,  Demolition Lady, & our NEW master, Zippy the speeding BB cat.
1989 Grand Villa 36' ORED
Oshkosh chassis, 8.2 DD V8
2006 Saturn Vue AWD

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Reply #6 –
I brought mine home in the other house during big storms. Now it sits snug in its own garage in the back yard fueled up ready to go.  The issue is that if we have a flood that big we will need to build an ark. 
2025 Wanderbox Outpost 32 on F600 Expedition Motorhome
2015 Born Free Royal Splendor on Ford 550 nonslide version  for sale
Former Coaches  covering. 360,000 miles
1999 34 U270
2000 36 U320
2001 42' double slide U320
2018 Jeep Rubicon

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Reply #7 –
Illinois

No hurricanes here, too high to flood, no civil unrest yet, plague and pestilence unlikely, so mine is not an EED...but, wait there are still the occasional tornadoes and snow.  Darn!

Keith
Keith, Joyce & Smokey the Australian Cattle Dog
1995 U320 SE Extreme 40' WTBI Build # 4780, with a Honda CR-V hopefully still following behind.
Motorcade # 17030
FMCA # F422159

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Reply #8 –
Everyone probably knows this, It is better to keep the diesel filled up as there is less condensation (water contamination) if the tank is full. 

Also, I love the fact that it is filled up and ready to go.  I also love the fact that I am in a hurricaine area, and don't need to have a generator for my home.  I can just stay at the FT Inn (right out front) when I return after the storm clearing.  That FT generator would run a looooong time on that full tank of diesel.  Gotta like that!
Best of Travels

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: drcscruggs –
Everyone probably knows this, It is better to keep the diesel filled up as there is less condensation (water contamination) if the tank is full. 

Also, I love the fact that it is filled up and ready to go.  I also love the fact that I am in a hurricaine area, and don't need to have a generator for my home.  I can just stay at the FT Inn (right out front) when I return after the storm clearing.  That FT generator would run a looooong time on that full tank of diesel.  Gotta like that!
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Reply #10 –
I live in Temple City, California.  As you recall, our town made the news last winter when a wind storm knocked out power (and with it water) for the better part of a week.  The FT parked next to my house means it was not that much of an ordeal for us.  We fired up the generator some each evening to keep the batteries charged and ran an extension cord to the refrigerator in the house, and were not really inconvenienced that much.
Tom Lang K6PG (originally  KC6UEC)
and Diane Lang
2003 38 U295 build 6209
2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Ecodiesel
still have tow-ready 2006 Acura MDX 
Temple City, California
Motorcade 16681 California Chapter President
SKP 16663 member of SKP Park of the Sierra, Coarsegold California
FMCA F071251
Retired electrical and electronic engineer

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Reply #11 –
This is the main reason (well, one of the main reasons, anyway) why we want a MH. I've actually asked on this forum about how long it takes to get going from a cold start and most people say that I should fire up the engine, then go around pulling plugs, hoses, etc. and by the time I'm back to the door the air will be up and the coach ready to roll.

Once we're full-timers, of course, we'll be ready to roll all the time.