Where's Liz? Alaska, Part 9, Hail, Rain, and Snow, Wy to MT

[Liz]

Winter is back in the Rocky Mountains. We're slowing down a little until it warms up.

http://wheresliz-2012.blogspot.com/2012/05/hail-rain-and-snow-wyoming-to-montana.html

[snowball]

It's spring time in the rocky's that is for sure!!!
enjoy your stay in ...Montana I didn't catch the name of the town you are in
sheila

[bluepinecones]

Thanks, Liz.
Sure wish I could send you some of our record breaking heat - near 100 for the weekend.

[kdmac]

Liz, Pardon me if you already know this but thought I would share this anyway. If your waterheater is leaking from the "Pressure Release Valve" that would be a normal thing for it to do if it had "popped" (when it pops it can be loud) due to a fluctuation in water pressure at one of the parks you have been to. So, once it pops it cannot reseat itself and all you need to do is give it a gentle tap with a hammer and that will seal the valve back into place. When it pops out like that it doesn't have a strong enough spring to snap back so it needs you to tap it back in there. You won't hurt it by tapping it with the hammer since it only takes a fairly gentle tap. It will stop leaking from there immediately. I can't suggest enough to ALWAYS attach a water pressure regulator to your hose and always leave it on the "RV end of the hose" instead of the "park water source" so you don't inadvertantly unscrew your hose and drive away leaving your regulator still hooked to the park water source.

[Liz]

Thanks for the info for future reference, Kathy. It's leaking around the drain plug where the anode rod would be if it had one (and looks corroded there), but I think it may be leaking somewhere inside too. I can't get to the hwh to look without dismantling cabinetry and part of the refer, so decided to let someone knowledgeable do that.

[sharon]

Ahhhhh yes...I do believe that the next camper after me in Tok, Alaska received a gift of a very expensive regulator a few years ago. A nice brass one with a gauge on it. Unfortunately my hose is atatched somewhere deep in the bowels of the storage compartment at the end of a hose reel, so the only place I can put it is on the faucet.

[Sandersmr]

I do the pressure regulator at the source because I want to protect the hose as well. But the first thing I hook to the source is a Y so that I will have a water source to fill the dog bowls and rinse stuff off. The regulator is attached to one side of the Y and then the filter, then the hose.

[kdmac]

Yeah, the "Y" is a great way to go. I am so cheap that about a year ago I bought two of the plastic ones and have gone through one already so once the other one is gone I will spend the big bucks and buy a brass one...probably all of five bucks or so....LOL. I can't use my "Y" here as they have some new-fangled Washington State Regulation that requires they put an anti-backflush fitting on the faucet and they all leak if you just look at them wrong. So when I added my beloved "Y" to it it was just a rediculous leak, they are supposed to fix mine one of these days. Funny, the maintenance guys are outside working on one across the road as I type this. But the "Y" is so nice so you can wash your car, your rv, water your pets, spray off your kayak, etc. without changing out hoses and loosing your pressure to the RV.

[pattyk]

Enjoy the snow. I am. We had snow yesterday and again today. Expected accumulation of about 2 inches.

When I went thru MT on the way to Yellowstone 5 years ago, I hit snow in MT in early June.

I have the brass one.