It rained A-L-L D-A-Y here! Doreen headed to the Alliance factory with a couple of her friends to sort through rally materials left over from last year while I stayed back to tend to Liberty and work on some projects here. Liberty wanted nothing to do with going out to go potty, but we worked it in between downpours. The rain let up a bit later and we headed out for a walk. Except for one other dog walker, we were the only peeps stirring. I think everyone else in the campground had hunkered down inside their coaches to stay warm and dry. Normally all day long people are out walking around, visiting, grilling out, etc, but nothing!
As Liberty and I walked around, it was a "sea" of Alliance coaches, as this is the unofficial "pre-rally" site.
Most of their product line is represented here. It is interesting to look over the coaches and see the various vintages. They just started making Alliance coaches in 2020 when we bought ours, so this is season 6. Their first line of coaches was the Paradigm and ours is a 310RL (31 ft long (actually 35) and "R"ear "L"iving). Then they built the Valor, the Avenue and the Delta. Finally they have starting building the Benchmark which is a "park model" but I have not seen a Benchmark here. Each year brings small changes to each model, so again, it is interesting to see the various years of 310RL's for instance, and compare them with ours. We are very happy with our coach and it has been very reliable, so we are not at all interested in trading at this point,.
Later Doreen returned and we watched part of the Chicago Cubs game and then we watched Caitlin Clark and the WNBA Indiana Fever lose a close game to the Atlanta Dream. My network hard drive is giving me some intermittent issues so I ordered a new one and it will be here Friday. Thanks Amazon!
At home, Ankeny and central Iowa got up to about 5" of rain yesterday and our son gave us a heads-up to keep an eye on our sump pump. I have multiple systems installed in my house to monitor what is going on there. Cameras give us "eyes-on" and I even have a sump pump camera for that. I also have a system called "Sense", which is a power monitor system. Each device in your house that draws current has a specific power signature. The power signature of a heat-producing appliance has a different signature than a motor circuit, for instance. Sense learns our devices as we use them and then compares those signatures with hundreds of thousands of signatures from tens of thousands of other Sense users. Then it makes a recommendation, such as "Sense has found a new device in your home and we believe it is a motor, or a light, or a refrigerator". Then you can agree or rename it. So in my case, it found my sump pump, and it reports each time it comes on or off. The reason that is important is it tells me when it runs and it therefore lets me know how often it runs and for how long. By monitoring this I can tell whether it is running more and more frequently, or if it is slowing down. By monitoring how long it runs, I can tell how close we are getting to it not keeping up. In the case of the sump pump, I have a secondary backup that is also electrical-powered, then I have a water-powered backup that runs on city water pressure. Then I have water alarms at two levels in the sump pit plus one on the floor at the top of the pit. If those go off we have issues! Flooded basement here we come! The whole house is on a natural gas-powered generator that is auto-start so in the event of a power failure we will still have power.
Here are a couple screen shots from my Sense app tonight. You can see it is running every 39 minutes and it is just starting to slow down slightly.
With the various telemetry systems, sensors and cameras, we sleep pretty good knowing the house is safe and secure. Our son also keeps eye's-on as well, and we are so thankful for that.
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