Mother Nature wanted to give us one last hurrah before we left. I kept bitching about it not being like winter, and bygolley, I got it. Woke up to freezing my ass off, the heat pump is in perma-defrost, diesel heaters quit due to gelling. Have a bit of propane left over so switched the big furnace on. I did have to go outside and swap around tanks.
It’s so cold and windy it’s hard to breathe outside. The temp is dropping another 5 degrees by 8am.
Movers came yesterday, we officially are 100% moved out of Indianapolis. It was a clusterfuck. The storage place’s gates were frozen and there was no emergency number or way of contacting the owner/manager. The rear gate kinda opened, but not really.
Manager refused a refund for the remainder of the month, ended up paying movers another $175 due to sitting around. Owners owns DQ next door, thankfully he came over and was able to take the gate off.
2 Men and a Truck forged my signature on all pre and post move paperwork. I tipped the movers well and let them know I guess I have full rights if anything is broken or stolen.
Lastly, dude at O’Rileys ended up scratching my windshield on the Tesla when we swapped wiper blades. It was a bitch as the mechanism was frozen and they made it unnecessary complicated for no reason. Kinda miffed at that, but it’s alright, the scratches are superficial and I have some oxide stuff coming to buff/polish the scratch out. I went to the Car Wash, the manual one as all others were closed, and used the wand to unfreeze the wiper blades. It worked, but was weird seeing the ice build up on the car as I was washing it.
We’ve yet to hear back on timeline to move in to our townhome, it’s still going to be a bit longer, hopefully we get in no later than February.
It’s 4am now and I’m kinda venting a bit, but there’s still a lot to be grateful for, and I am. My shit is out of Indy even if it didn’t go very smoothly. The heat is out, but now it’s warming up due to the propane furnace working. The water is frozen, but the tank and pipe heaters I installed last summer should keep the shit and water tanks unfrozen.
I think that’s why the Texas grid failure was so extreme in 2021. I’m sitting in this RV bedroom right now and the wind is loud, and has been for two days now. You can feel the cold off the walls, in the air. In a house, you wouldn’t really know until you lost electricity then SMACK, right in the face.
It’s going to be so nice having a warm and comfortable home. No more frozen water, longer than 5 minute showers on demand, no more RV rocking due to wind and loud wind noise or the chill of the walls and floor radiating to chill you while trying to sleep. And space. We’ll be going from about 250 square feet to 980.
I’m so looking forward to it.
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