 When I got my fifth wheel one of the choices I made was to put on a lot of solar instead of spending the money on a generator. So I have no generator. I don't have a portable generator. I don't have any other power source besides my batteries. I did that to save the cost on the other things so that I could afford the solar. I think in the long run it's really going to pay off because I boondock like I am right now. But you know if I'm in a stormy cloudy area for a week at a time which I'm going to be right now, I was a little bit concerned about how I was going to power even basic stuff without any solar power coming in. So fingers crossed this is a really good test so I can see how the solar works out. This week is going to be a good test for my new solar. I'm here in Wickenburg, Arizona and you guys can see it is super rainy outside but beautiful. I'm in a great spot and so far I have enjoyed some really great power on my solar. I've made a lot more than I have used but last night I went to bed and my solar was at 44 percent. Hey look at that on the bottom left it's still 44 percent. Again I'm still getting used to this panel you can see in the bottom left there. It says 12.9 which is how I'm used to reading solar but this is cool it's almost like a gas gauge. It tells me how full my six lithium batteries are so I've got 44 percent on six lithium batteries which is a lot. Right now I am using 83 watts and I'm making zero because the sun is not out yet it's dawn and it's been raining. I'm going to go ahead and use the regular power that I do. I'm going to cook today. I'm going to use my Instant Pot and see what happens with a rainy day on this type of solar. I'll let you guys know. It's 10.30 at night it's still raining outside. I'm at 39 percent but it's going to be like this all week so we'll see what happens after several days in a row of no sun. Okay this is day two of my seven-day rain experiment to see what happens with my solar. Again I don't have a backup. I just woke up and I want to show you guys it is really really raining we're actually in a flesh-fled warning here. I'm with some friends but we're in a nice higher area so we're not in a washer or anything we should be fine but these poor people came in last night and excuse my friend over here. I do know this person that's parked so close to me so no worries. So I don't know if you guys can see this little trailer right here. I have to tell you we feel so bad for them because on the door they have a conservation emblem so they're from some kind of a conservation group. They got here late last night and put up tents and it's muddy you guys. We saw a couple of people get kind of stuck yesterday but again don't bring a fiat in here in the mud but you know so they were here last night they tried to get out today they've been stuck for over an hour there's actually four of them you don't see them right now because I mean my gosh they're they're kind of giving up I see a lot of them walking away they've both they've all been digging for an hour trying to get out of this mud I wish I had a better shot for you but that's basically how it is here. I haven't had sun in two days. Oh okay so my six lithium batteries are 22% full again it's a different way for me of thinking about it than before but it's like a gas gauge so 22% full and I am using 28 watts 27 of power and I'm making oh 82 watts 80 do you guys see that so I'm making 70 80 watts and I'm using just under 30 so even in this rain I am making more solar than I'm using okay so here's the deal I gotta knock on my door it was two teenage girls it looks like that group out there is a conservation group called the conservation experience if I had to guess they're 17 I could be wrong but um their kids and I asked them how the experience was and they said great we love it but they asked if I could help push them out well I don't know what good I'm gonna do but I have a couple of ideas when people got stuck on Pismo Beach I saw that they would put boards of wood underneath the tires and I don't have any but I've called everybody I know around here so we're trying to figure it out I'm gonna run out right now if that doesn't work I'm gonna see if I can hook up my truck to their trailer or my truck to their truck and give them out but I've never done that oh my god it's muddy you guys this is jack jack has been working hard tell us about it jack we were right there and then tried to come over the hill to leave but my boss got high centered so gotcha now I have to dig him out oh my god turn around you are a mess and I just asked them if they were on their way to a shower and they said no they have to go to other BLM land you guys were in a flood zone yeah we got flash flood warnings uh yesterday because we were about two washes down uh the trail so we did cover up on social channels so we came back up to avoid that because it's kind of stuck going through the washes and then we camped right over here made dinner and then we came got up this morning ate breakfast and sure enough like consider going straight look let's go up this hill oh my gosh sure enough we just got stuck it was it's four-wheel drive or at least one-wheel drive it's four-wheel drive but we had it on four-wheel low yeah I saw I saw a fortune well these two tires spinning yeah the back tires are but but since we're on top of this hill the front two tires are a little bit elevated so we can't get that oh shoot so this is the conservation experience experience they're stuck it wasn't the wheels they're stuck under the middle here awesome yeah Peggy and I are here we're in the mud we're about to try and pull these kids out of here and it's muddy I am in the mud so hopefully we don't all get stuck well that didn't work and we almost got stuck but we're back in front of my rig now they're gonna call a wrecker and get towed out we almost got stuck in my dually it is no joke here so I'm back in my rig it is pouring rain again I don't know I felt bad I could not get them out they are bottomed out on this hill and hopefully they get out of here but I do know several people that have camped where it was raining you know down a BLM dirt road you're never supposed to do it in a wash when it's this kind of season because you can get flooded out I know people that didn't camp in a wash but then they couldn't get out the same thing you have to be really careful because the water will actually wash out the roads or get people stuck like this these poor kids they've been on their bellies for hours trying to dig out they've been literally laying on the ground digging the mud out of their undercarriage and they just got out I think they figured out that the wrecker wasn't coming I know that they tried to call one but they unhooked their trailer dug out their undercarriage and got out so hopefully now they can get up this hill one o'clock in the afternoon and they've been trying to get out of here since about seven in the morning yay they made it yay can you guys hear this we're getting a little bit of hail I just checked we're still in a flood watch and I was hoping it was going to get better I looked at the radar it is getting hairy in a couple of hours like real bad and this is what I'm looking at for the next two days there is no break in the rain at all let's see until I don't know when is this gonna stop um couple days maybe I'll get a break it is not good okay the sun just went down so I'm not making any solar now I don't really have a lot running I'm using 53 watts and my batteries are down to 24 the good thing about these batteries is that I can run them down unlike traditional like AGM batteries so this is good um see what it is in the morning okay it's about eight o'clock in the morning it poured all night we were getting flash flood warnings on our phones but the sun is just about to come up um and I have no idea what it's at it was really low last night so let's see oh okay after three days of rain my lithium batteries are at six percent and I'm using 27 watts but I'm making 47 so it should go back up whoa that was close I am glad those kids got out of here because it is coming down out there let's see how the solar's doing the sun's gonna go down in about an hour if you guys can even hear me over the rain all right 25 percent I'm using 67 and only making 25 right now so that's not good so I'm really going to have to um make sure I turn off all my lights turn off my water pump turn off everything I can to conserve that power for tonight so my friend here in the B I just called her and told her she should probably move up because that little creek has been flooding and I'm glad she did I couldn't see behind her there's a straight up lake back there now and it looked like it was going to start encroaching around her and if she tried to get outside she would have jumped into at least four inches of water okay this is me now but look what happens tonight I can't even imagine um it's gonna get worse geez well wish me luck what's the matter boy you're getting scared it's pretty loud I don't know if you guys can see this but two rivers have formed inside this road and um this is why they say don't go into a flesh flood area because look over here I don't know behind those trees if you can see it but that was a wash and now that wash is completely full of water but it's basically a rushing river and um it's deep and if someone had been camping down there like those kids or something that stayed down in a wash that would have been really bad it is um no joke we're way above it but um still it's not going to stop for three days okay after five full days of rain I finally have my first sunny day it is eight o'clock in the morning I'm at 18 percent so let's see how my six lithium batteries do how long they take to charge when it's fully sunny right now I am using 31 watts of power and I'm making 387 and the sun isn't even up yet yay hey guys it's seven o'clock here the sun just went down and this has been a really good test of my solar I love that I can run my batteries lower than the old traditional batteries although I didn't mean to but I didn't have to worry as much there was some spotty sun that was out for two or three hours one of my friends has one battle-born lithium hers was almost full in that time my other two friends have two I was able to get up to the 40s the low 40s but I'm charging six lithium batteries so as you can see it's still raining it just will not stop raining here I think we're gonna have a break sporadically for the next few days but I think I'm okay now let's check and see okay I'm at 37 percent which if you guys can see on the lower left hand corner I'm at 13.1 so that seems low but I tell you on my old system with my two old agm batteries I would have been thrilled with 13.1 I am making no power right now from the sun and I'm using 95 which is a lot usually when I'm just sitting here running nothing I'm in the low 20s but I am charging a few things in here and I did cook something dried my hair so I think I'll be good for the night