New Years is coming ! - #3 DENALANE.BLOGSPOT.COM

If you survived the mid-week feast day, you can now set your sights onto whatever the next holiday is (for you), these many different ethnic and religious year-end celebrations are what created the generic "HAPPY HOLIDAYS" non insulting years-end era greeting.     

PORT ORFORD'S VILLAGE TURKEY-AT-LARGE

Depending on how your RV home is set up (with/without propane), our need for heat, and the excess cooking/baking, makes this a high electric use season (like sometimes we get with air conditioning) ... fortunately we almost never get too cold or hot on the coast, but if you are on electric only... watch your ammeter as you run all the mixers, crockpot, toaster, oven, burners, blenders, microwave, heaters, dehumidifier, computer stuff, and overloaded ... the ampacity levels can become scary, and even dangerous, circuit breakers do not always "work", and can become weak/lazy or even"stuck" from corrosion.

This weeks three Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 37-38 degree overnights were an early warning of freakish below 32 degree nights coming, or even that one-off nasty 25-28 degree arctic blast.   Then on Thursday  Thanksgiving morning ... 30 degrees !  Friday morning 31 degrees ! Saturday and Sunday both had AM 30 degrees again, an ice scraper, and warm up the car morning greetings !  but, the warm 50 degree days break the chain... when the sun disappears and the high is only in the 30's, the ground (and your rig) cold soaks, and some surprises could be in store... either simply "no" water,  or worse yet broken frozen water components.

From what I understand, the Port Orford water system is, lets call it "old-age taxed", so, the usual let the faucet trickle trick may not be a good use of treated drinking water, us white-hose people need to be sure our entire ground to RV exposed stuff is protected (including your entry point area inside the RV.   Pretty simple really, for the once-twice times a year event, just wrap and cover it all with an old bath towel, blanket, or ? (it needs to stay warm too)  when it gets cold you put on a sweater, your pipes and hoses need the same.    Inside, wherever your water inlet penetration is let it be exposed to room heat... open the cabinet, remove the drawer, replacing outdoor piping is easy, but, inside your rig...not so much.   anyway plan ahead, be ready for those one ...two nights a year.

More about explaining our Cape Blanco to Punta Gorda weather and sea... The Coriolis force, which is the result of the Earth's rotation, (our spinning along here at 730 miles an hour --Anchorage is at 450 MPH, the equator at 1,000 MPH) west to east, is what us non-science folks think of as centrifugal force.  It affects both our wind and water in general, and adds to the Davidson current and our California current that we mentioned last week... 

Looking at that picture of the bomb cyclone tells it all...   our Southern Oregon coast sees the Coriolis make things in/on our surface of the earth move to the east, and spiral in a counter-clockwise direction (water down your sink drain, bomb cyclones), it really gives us some goofy (hard to forecast) weather and ocean conditions.

T-day was a beautiful day ... in all ways, we hope yours was too, a week of sun is coming.

The park owner is now in touch about the Internet issue, so things are moving in the right direction... I am no longer email/texting (the 12) when Monday's posting is up online... you know it's here, you have the URL.