Trins: All of this driving has given me time to think...

...what if we had a long term well failure, then what would we do?

Good question, a solution for that is on the todo list. It's not complicated, the problem is solved by a manual well pump (by Oasis Pumps) made out of polymers.  It can reach water 100s of feet below unlike a cast iron pump because the sucker rod is made out of light weight sections of 1/2" PVC (the casing is 2" PVC).  It's also easy to install.

Keena:  What if we have an extended electrical outage?  (This pic is from a dramatic interpretation for speech and debate class).











Another good question, coupling the charge controller on the left with the inverter on the right and a few panels provides 400+ watts of charging power (panels and deep cycle batteries are connected to the controller, the inverter connects to the batteries and the appliances connect to the inverter) to run a refrigerator, freezer and smaller items (we'll see how long we can run big appliances).  A smaller panel and controller will connect to the same batteries and run 12v LEDs to supply all the light need.  (Also required are fuses between the batteries and controller & inverter on the + side).



TJ:  What if we freeze our butt buns pants off (spouse edit) like we did on our recent camping trip?

It was cold inside my shelter (except when a wild animal would crawl in and snuggle with me).

Blaise: At least our food was warm (this is one of the animals you snuggled with?).

But cold enough for the van to get stuck on a trip to the dumpster.  The trash still got there thanks to our sleds.

Trins: What if... you have one spare but two flats? (I thank the Lord that these failed just before a place we could pull off. There were a 1,000 other much worse places they could have come apart).