RVs and prepping

I'd like to mention something the Child Bride and I are doing to prepare for the coming pandemic.  When you consider that something like one in nine households in the U.S. has a recreational vehicle of some kind,  raising this topic may increase awareness of some resources that a lot of us have parked in our yards that aren't used for about 48 or 49 weeks out of the year.

We have a 1995 Itasca Suncruiser Motor Home.  It has 100 gallons of  fresh water holding capacity, 65 gallons of black water, 50 gallons of holding for gray water.  It  can hold 14 gallons of propane and 78 gallons of gasoline and has a 5000 watt generator.  It  has a refrigerator that can operate on  110 or on propane.  It sleeps six.  Are you other preppers out there getting some ideas already?

We are doing many of the in-house prepping that it looks like everyone else is doing--we aren't prepping in the motor home instead of doing the standard preps, but in addition to.  We also have a bug-out place to go to in the motor home  with  30 amp  electricity  (assuming  electric power exists) and water and a place to go dump holding tanks periodically.  Our RV has space for  food in addition to the food in our house and gives us an additional kitchen to the one in the house if we need it.  The motor home, which stays parked in our back yard and hooked to 30 amp most of  the time, also has possibilities as a sick room if we need it. 

We have had a camping trailer in the past and other than for  the size in tankages, since we had a portable 4200 watt generator, it gave us most of the same backups.  Oh yes, almost all RVs have some battery power if the batteries are kept charged ahead of power outages.

Anyone who has a popup camper,  camping trailer, fifth wheel, or motor home has a backup for these kinds of emergencies if only he realizes the value of what he has and makes plans for using it.

Is anyone else using an RV as a backup in case life in the "home-home" gets unworkable?  How are you doing it?

I full time in my 28 foot travel trailer.  I pretty much stay in two locations during the year.  I am prepped to the hilt in it.  This might be of interest to you.....weight limits.  You are in a motorhome so what you can carry is far greater than in my travel trailer so I am working on prepping it with dehydrated goods.  I've gone through it and know what pots and pans I use and gave a friend the rest.  I had way too much dinnerware weighing me down.  I exchanged a desk top for a lap top which certainly weighs less and costs less to use.  I carry seven changes of clothing and that is it.  I do; however, have 200 pounds of dog food in it.  That certainly takes a "bite" out of what I can carry.

we are in the process of getting ours set up for this same purpose.  We even put in a small wall mounted propane heater so if the electrcity goes out.

the heat is a big factor in AZ, so we load perishable sensitive foods in a box to load last minute and store dry stuff, etc. all year.in the RV.  The perishibles are loaded as the refrig. is turned on to cool a couple of days before a trip.If necessary we will load perishibles inroute or at desination.

We bought a locking gas cap for our motor home just in case someone tried to steal our gas.