Weather

Rain off and on. Nine inches in the last two weeks. Nice clear weather for the last couple days, but a little cool. Now Canada is sending us an arctic cold front. Rain, snow, and wind in the Friday night forecast. A projected low of 31 degrees. We’ll brace for that.

All this rain has exposed two slide leaks in the coach. The one in the bedroom is chronic. It’s been there for a couple years without us being able to figure out how the water is getting in. We can’t reproduce it with a hose from any direction. If we hear a storm is on the way, we pull the slide in so it won’t leak.

The other leak is a new one. We can see some worn weather stripping on one side of a living room slide. We know what to fix, we just haven’t been able to get the guy out to fix it yet. Our interim fix involves foam pipe insulation built up to two layers, stuck into the gap between the slide and the wall on the outside.

That works perfectly, as long as the wind isn’t so strong it blows the foam insulation out of the joint. That’s only happened once, but then we only tried it for the first time last storm.