Camper Van Camping In Heavy Rain Storm And Flood - Part 2

All right guys, supper is ready. I do have another hamburger that is for Boomer. These he cannot have because I put spice in it. It has garlic and onion and stuff like that. So he's just going to have to hold off for another minute. And I'm going to cut this, let it cool just for a moment because it is blazing hot. And while this is cooling, I'll get his food. I'll start him off on some dog food right now. And then I'll get him his burger cooked up in just a moment right after this. Just want to clean out the pan so there's no residual onion or garlic or anything in there for him. But let's just give this a quick little bite just to see. Still a little bit pink inside, looks great. Oh man, wow. Okay, next level. Wow, one more bite. One more bite and then we get Boomer's food. Man, so good. All right guys, just finished up with supper and doing up some dishes. Yes, I actually do my dishes in the van. I know some people don't. They just kind of rinse them out and off they go. I like to wash and clean everything because I do not want that disgusting hamburger smell in the van. It's comparable to a wet dog on a rainy day. And when you have both, it's not very fun. So this little scrub brush is absolutely incredible. I love that. So I've already washed this pan out, just kind of making sure the grease and oil is all out of here. And for that, I like using makeup removing wipes. These are actually scented. I found these at a local dollar store. They're Dead Sea Oasis wet cleansing towelettes. They're for removing makeup and like body wipes, like washing yourself. They smell really, really good and it cuts through the oil. So I buy probably two or three or four or five packs of those at a time. And I like stocking them in the van because they're great for wiping down and cleaning. And just toss them into the garbage can afterwards and off I go. It's better than keeping a cloth or a towel. I do use a towel for certain things, but I don't like using a towel for this because that greasy towel is still lingering in the van and I don't like that. So, and not only that, these wipes cut down on using water, which obviously today is not a problem. We're next to a river and it's raining. So that tucks into there. There are pretty loud, deep rumbles of thunder outside right now. I haven't seen any lightning, but fingers crossed, I would love to have a lightning storm out here in the van. That would be incredible. So I'm just going to wash all this up, get it nice and clean. And then I do have some scented candles that I keep in the van for scent and for light, because I don't like killing my batteries. Not that this is going to kill the battery anytime soon. It's just, uh, it's more relaxing I find with the candle, you know, and it's not going to use any electricity. So why not? I am going to be wiping down with these before I crawl into bed later on tonight, just to get all the grime and dirt off me before I crawl into bed. And, uh, yeah, so I'm going to get some candles sparked up, probably brew up another hot drink with the kettle. I'm almost out of water in the van because I forgot to fill the jug on the way here, but there's a river right there and I happen to have a filter. So I could go out there, grab some, come back in and filter it. I think I want to wait till tomorrow to do that though, when it's not raining so heavy. So I'm just going to go ahead and use the water and boil it up, make up a hot drink and relax. I don't know if you guys can hear that thunder, but that one I actually felt in the van. It's getting more frequent. Hopefully it's getting closer. So I'm digging into my container of hot drink mixes. I've got Copico coffees. I've got chai masala, chai teas and matcha lattes. I think I'm going to do a matcha latte. Yeah, I want to do a matcha latte. I'm not really in the mood for coffee, so let's get this whipped up. I find all of these at Chinese markets and Chinese grocery stores. I love going to those stores. They have everything. We have a really nice one in Halifax, Nova Scotia called Ejoy. All kinds of stuff in there. So let's get this sparked up again and get a kettle on. Boil that up. Get the cup ready. Matcha latte, evening rain, mountain river, thunder in the distance. Gotta love it. All right guys, just finished up with one movie and it is total darkness outside right now. The rain has actually stopped, which is really tempting for me to go out and light a fire, but it's pushing midnight right now, so there's really no point. So I've got some lights on right now. I'm actually going to get some of these lights dimmed down and just rock these candles for a little bit. I am going to turn on another movie. Watch that. Get this fan turned on because it is getting muggy in here and probably just call it a night. Super relaxing in here right now. Boomer just went out for a pee, so I think it's that time of the evening where we basically turn in for the night. So one more movie, brush my teeth, and then I'll head to bed and I'll catch you guys in the morning for coffee. Good night everybody. Good morning everybody. What a wild night last night was. It pounded with rain yesterday and last night so bad that everything out here is massively flooded, and I'm talking flooded. This area here usually is just a river flowing into a little tiny bit of rapids. It looks like a massive lake right now. There are trees, full-grown trees, about three feet into the water now because the water has flooded up so high. This river used to be quiet yesterday. Now it is raging loud. Absolutely insane the amount of rain that came down yesterday. All right guys, I'm ducking back inside of the van right now because that water out there is raging super loud. Probably a little difficulty here. So last night it rained again. It poured and all day yesterday. You guys would have seen that in part one and earlier in this video. So it rained so much so that I actually got woken up by an emergency alert on my cell phone. Now I always find this funny because I have no cell phone reception, no usable data here, nothing, but yet I can still receive an emergency alert. Right? Kind of strange. My cell phone spiked up the three bars of service. The alert came in and as soon as the alert came in, back to no service. So it kind of makes you wonder how much service we really do have and how much service they actually allow us to have. A little strange, but I got that alert. Massive flooding everywhere around where I'm at and where I have to travel through today. So hopefully there's no washed out roads or bridges because it's going to kind of block me in and not be able to get out, which you know isn't such a bad thing. But I like to be able to plan for that a little bit in advance. Now speaking on that, if I were to get stuck and I had to basically stay in one location in the van, I would be good here by myself looking at food. I've got solar. I could turn the key to the engine and charge batteries as well. I've got another battery unit. Obviously I've got plenty of water. A month, I could probably stay here for 30 days and not have to worry about a single thing. That goes to show van life and bug out vehicles and just you know being prepared without actually being prepared. Like I just did a mental inventory of what I have here. I could easily stay here for one month and not have to worry about anything other than stinky dirty clothes. Which realistically I can go out there and wash my clothing in the river if I want. I do have dish soap in here. I've got body wash. I've got deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste. I've got food, water, energy, fuel, gas. I have everything. As long as I don't run out of coffee, I'll be fine. But yeah, that river is raging right now. If you guys go back to part one of this video and even maybe earlier on in this particular video, you guys will see that the width of the river, the little rapids, the width of it. Now it's just a huge pond, a big pool and those full-grown trees are the river bank. Right now I'm looking at the river bank is about three and a half feet past the trunk of a full-grown tree. Trees don't grow in water like that obviously. I mean these trees don't. So this probably up about five to six feet out of the original bank edge. Insane. So I had a great night last night. Really really nice hearing the rain tapping on the roof of the van. Watched a couple movies. Had the candles glowing. Had the fan on and I actually woke up this morning a tiny bit chilled. I was on top of my blankets the entire night until probably the last 30 minutes of my sleep when I woke up. I actually felt cold. I crawled underneath my comforter for about 30 minutes and I was actually really really comfortable and then I decided to get up and make coffee. So it is a little bit breezy out there. It is forecasted to rain again today. So I'm going to enjoy my coffee and I think just get things packed up and settled in and probably start the van and head down the road just to make sure if there is anything wrong. I can always recalculate my plan and the reason why I'm trying to get out of here today is because I actually need to be somewhere. So yeah we'll get this wrapped up and enjoy this coffee first though and the sights of that river out this window. I still can't get over it. Just beautiful. Absolutely epic location. If you guys have any vehicles like vans or campers or trucks or anything that you camp out of, I highly suggest parking with a view something like that. An ocean, a lake, a river, a mountain. This is not the first time me doing this. Definitely not. Definitely not even the first time doing this on camera. I've literally parked my jeep on a riverbank. A massive mountain riverbank and slept in the rooftop tent. So this always gets me excited. Just waking up to the view and the sounds. Definitely a good way to restart and refresh the mind. So cheers guys. Morning coffee. Gonna kick back and relax and it's gonna be time to get out of here. All right guys just finished up with my morning coffee. Everything in the van is packed up and ready to go and that's probably the beautiful thing about vehicle camping. You don't have to tear down a wet tent. You don't got to tuck away sleeping bags. The only thing I got to do put my window foam coverings back up if I wish to. Make my bed. Blow out the candles. Turn the key. Drive out of here and that's exactly what I'm going to do. Get back to my computer. Edit the video. Get it out to you guys and then repeat. Do it again. Another adventure. So peace out guys. I'll catch you in the next one.