Wild Camping at Black Knowl
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Given the apparent collapse of any facilities following the lack of electricity, I wonder if CAMC are investing in solar to provide resilience.
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Not one mention of loss of heating in my OP, so I don't know where you got that from, the same for any red herrings. What I did lose but didn't mention in my post was the use of the MH air conditioning, which was keeping my two dogs cool in the still high temperatures of the evening.
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To be perfectly frank, if it was so hot between 8pm and 1am that you found it necessary to run habitation aircon for your dogs, I consider it irresponsible to put the dogs at risk by having them there. If it wasn’t that hot, we have another red herring.
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Yes, that occurred to me too. I think, particularly if we'd been in that situation with dogs, with a MH I'd have been ringing round to see what alternative sites could cater for me, even for a day or two, and then return to BK on the assumption the problem had been sorted.
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It seems that quite a few dog owners do not consider the heat as we have noted many out on the park (two old English sheepdog not clipped)with their owners when we went to lunch at one of the cafes
When I spoke to a ranger about giving advice to dog owners it did not tick one of his boxes so common sense did not prevail as with the owners , spoke to a couple of owners and it seems it was not a problem for them
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You got me. How irresponsibe of me that when I made the booking at the beginning of May I didn't check the weather forecast for the evening of August 8th and then contact Mystic Meg for any unplanned power outages that evening. With that information I would have able to take precautions to responsibly care for my dogs.
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A bit sarcastic! Not sure what the club system is these days (it's getting on for 3 years since we used a club site) but didn't you get any forewarning of the likelihood of problems? I keep reading posts about "before you go" emails?
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Ridiculous? Why leave it till 8pm? Ever used CLs? There are loads of them in the New Forest. I just think, however inconvenient I might have thought the problem would last longer than 30 minutes and at least thought about alternatives. Never would rely on AC to keep ourselves comfortable, let alone the dogs.
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The post from Rowena which says
"On 13 July the Before You Travel webpage was updated with the following message - "Due to planned maintenance at a local substation, the site will be without mains electricity and will be operated off a large generator on 8th and 9th August. "
So it was clear there might have been a problem (sod's law and all that) and that should have been a signal that relying on AC for the dogs might be problematic. Each to his own, but, as said, I'd have been looking at alternatives back then.
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What still high temperatures?
According to the Met office weather data at 10pm onwards at the Black Knowl area on the date of 8th it was 18C then 15C at 2am on the 9th.
You needed AC for those temperatures?
Perhaps the inside of your MH was warmer but then you should have opened some windows and/or taken your dogs outside?
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An RV recreational vehicles is anything that you use it for , be it a motor caravan as described by the paper work you got as owner from the DVLA? through to caravans , trailer tent and fifth wheel caravans 👍
Fancy having mains AC on a motor caravan 🤔
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RV = Recreational Vehicle - usually American.
LV = Leisure Vehicle - any form of leisure vehicle.
AC is 240v on standard UK motorhomes. It would drain a 12v leisure battery very quickly.
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