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12-20-2019, 01:30 PM
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#81
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Williamson County, Tennessee
Trailer: 2019 Escape-21C toad by 2017 Titan XD Crew Cab V8 4x4
Posts: 450
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Bears, not the NFL kind in TN
Early winter here too and bears apparently got caught b4 full enuf to hibernate over east, in the Smokies. They saw one inside south Knoxville TN the other day, near where my dad in law's house was. We've had them also reported around here in central TN too, tho we have not seen one yet.. Plenty of deer, coons, opussums, squirrels and a few foxes nearby plus one sighting of a wildgat down the street..we have a favorite all-black neighborhood cat ...[one who belongs up the street] but hangs out here bks we feed him too and made a shelter for him. He pays us back by running off the squirrels, coons and chipmunks and so on..which eat the bird feed. ;-) We sutherners hate winter but like the animals out here in the country
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12-21-2019, 12:29 AM
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#82
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Ventura County, California
Trailer: 2015 Escape 17A
Posts: 2,348
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In California we can't even consider any of this. All the critter in question has to do is self-identify as an endangered species, then you're legal toast!!!
(We can't use this either:
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12-21-2019, 01:30 AM
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#83
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Site Team
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mid Left Coast, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21
Posts: 5,174
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the forecast here says the greater SF Bay Area might get a white christmas on the ridges. odds of any snow at lower elevations is pretty slim. but its happened before, these are pictures from prior snow years in San Francisco...
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/artic...#photo-8898608
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12-21-2019, 07:39 AM
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#84
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Burlington Twp., New Jersey
Trailer: 2010 Escape 19
Posts: 7,146
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Lewis
I was concerned that I might inadvertently trap a skunk when trying to trap something else.
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Happened to one of my neighbors. Trapped a skunk when he was trying to trap a groundhog.
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01-14-2020, 04:12 PM
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#85
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA "Zen"
Posts: 1,390
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You know, it's a long way until the rally. I watched all the videos I can take. People are leaving for Florida now.
I made lists of what I need to do each month to get ready. I even vacuumed the truck. It's gonna be a while till the tires hit the road.
I'm getting a little edgy. How am I gonna make it till Spring?
Tim
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01-14-2020, 04:37 PM
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#86
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Well you can continue to post here on the forum, only 20,270 more to go to catch me.....
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Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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01-14-2020, 05:00 PM
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#87
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Placerville, California
Trailer: 2018 Escape 17A double dinette
Posts: 1,521
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heh. and miles to go before you sleep.
It was five months from build completion to pick up for me, and I spent it dreaming of modifications. When the pictures start to come, it'll get pretty antsy, but by then, it'll be really close.
Speaking of rotten moods...like many others in Calif I have received notice that my homeowners has been cancelled after 31 years. So I'm spending time on the phone and keyboard trying to find coverage. Five "no" and one maybe so far. Sigh.
editing to add, feeling grateful that I HAVE a home and it's paid for.
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01-14-2020, 05:09 PM
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#88
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Central, Pennsylvania
Trailer: Escape#5 2022 E19
Posts: 26,268
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Some states have a state insurance commissioner to which appeals on cancellations can be made....
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Sometime life gets in the way of living.......
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01-14-2020, 08:20 PM
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#89
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Santa Rosa County, Florida
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21 Tow: 2024 Toyota Tundra
Posts: 3,107
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And some states (e.g. Florida) have a state-sponsored insurer of last resort if you can't get a homeowners policy in the private sector. Florida's insurer was/is Citizens, and I had to use them to insure my father's house when I rented it out after his death in 2006. Due to a string of bad hurricanes in 2004 major carriers still refuse to write new policies in Florida.
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She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie-- propane
Photos and travelogues here: mikelewisimages.com
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01-14-2020, 09:06 PM
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#90
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
Trailer: 2009 Escape 17B 2020 Toyota Highlander XLE
Posts: 17,136
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It's going to be an increasing problem.
Recently in Vancouver a newly built concrete condo tower found its insurance increase from $66,000 a year to $588,000 a year. Passed on, of course to owners.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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01-14-2020, 09:28 PM
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#91
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: SLO County, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21C 2019 Expedition
Posts: 5,215
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Quote:
Originally Posted by h2owmn
heh. and miles to go before you sleep.
It was five months from build completion to pick up for me, and I spent it dreaming of modifications. When the pictures start to come, it'll get pretty antsy, but by then, it'll be really close.
Speaking of rotten moods...like many others in Calif I have received notice that my homeowners has been cancelled after 31 years. So I'm spending time on the phone and keyboard trying to find coverage. Five "no" and one maybe so far. Sigh.
editing to add, feeling grateful that I HAVE a home and it's paid for.
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Sorry to hear; curious as to which company canceled you. I have always preached one should shop insurance and did two days ago. Had USAA for years, then 23 years ago switched to AAA. Got a much better quote yesterday from USAA, yet the first question asked re Homeowners insurance was dis we live in area with wild fires.
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01-14-2020, 10:08 PM
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#92
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Site Team
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mid Left Coast, California
Trailer: 2014 Escape 21
Posts: 5,174
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We had to change carriers a year or two ago, our previous insurance announced they were getting out of the California homeowners market entirely. I think we ended up on USAA (my wife took care of it, and she's a vet)
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01-14-2020, 10:31 PM
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#93
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Trailer: 2015 Escape 19 "Seventy Degrees"
Posts: 3,495
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Ross,
USAA now has a fire protection team that they dispatch. Found that out at our cabin couple years back when we evacuated. The Fire team comes to town and if things get dicey they setup portable ponds and sprinklers plus foam all your structures. They stay with the properties until threat passes. Pretty cool to meet them and walk through our plan prior to us evacuating.
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01-15-2020, 10:07 AM
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#94
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Placerville, California
Trailer: 2018 Escape 17A double dinette
Posts: 1,521
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Yes, it's because of fire danger. I had been with Farmers. I am a mile from town but at the end of the road surrounded on 3 sides by forest. The irony of my idyllic location is not lost on me.
Calif does have an alternative that must insure...it's call the FAIR plan. A regular company can choose to insure for the usual mundane stuff and the FAIR policy covers fire, wind, flood, that kind of thing. I am exploring that but no word on the price of the FAIR part as yet.
I'm trying to concentrate on the blessing of having a paid-for house.
Thanks all for the commiseration.
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01-16-2020, 09:16 AM
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#95
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA "Zen"
Posts: 1,390
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
Well you can continue to post here on the forum, only 20,270 more to go to catch me.....
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How am I ever gonna catch you? I'll try.
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01-16-2020, 06:58 PM
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#96
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Kent, Ohio
Trailer: 2017 21c Sold, 2023 Bigfoot 25RQ
Posts: 1,410
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My cure for that is an old fiddle and a book of tunes
No depression here
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02-04-2020, 02:18 PM
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#97
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA "Zen"
Posts: 1,390
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Hey Myron, how is that attitude doing these days?
The days are getting longer and I am hoping your mood has come around.
My body is starting to realize how close Spring is. My greenhouse is coming to life. All the citrus are blooming. But it's 16° outside Today with 8 inches of snow. It was 75° Sunday.
I hope you are doing well.
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02-16-2020, 06:17 PM
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#98
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ..., New Mexico
Trailer: 2013 Esc19/'14 Silvrado
Posts: 4,193
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Doin' OK, Uncle Tim, though of course, since life is like a box of chocolates --all we can do is jes' keep the faith and keep on truckin'. (You know it and I know it.)
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"A billion here, a billion there...add it all up and before you know it you're talking real money." Everett Dirkson
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02-16-2020, 06:26 PM
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#99
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Trailer: 2020 Escape 5.0TA "Zen"
Posts: 1,390
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Could not have said it better!
Soon, Man, soon!
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