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Second_Chance
Explorer II
Dec 27, 2015

Snow, driving with slide out...

We're in Las Cruces, NM, spending the holidays with family (staying in an RV "resort"). It started snowing a little after noon yesterday and we've received 4 - 6" in the Mesilla Valley as of 11:00 this morning. Late last night, a large class A DP pulled in across from us, apparently getting off of I-10 in the bad weather. This morning we've watched him spend a couple of hours trying to clear the snow off the slide toppers. He pulled his tow'd - a full-size pickup - around to one side to stand in the bed to try to clear the slide topper on the street side. Not being able to clear the heavy, wet snow off the topper (which was sagging to the point of laying on the top of the slide), he just hitched up the pickup and pulled out with the street side slide a little more than half way out... my wife watched the slide wobble as they pulled out of the park. I hope whatever he's in such a hurry to get to is that important!
  • Driving with a slide partially extended would really be asking for trouble. I think I would have used the water hose to melt the snow enough for it to slide off.
  • Slide out probably had a sofa or chair in it. That would be best spot for wife to sit. She could read a book and not even look at winter roads. :)
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    All he needed to do was stand there ans sweep snow away as slide out was retracted especially with slide toppers

    Emergency or not....traveling with slide out partially extended was just plain STUPID.
    All he did was cause MORE issues.......water/snow intrusions, damage to slide out mechanism, possible collision with other vehicles/stationary objects, illegal due to over width limit.

    :S :S


    It looked to me like the snow dam from the sagging topper was preventing him from pulling the slide all the way in.

    Rob
  • All he needed to do was stand there ans sweep snow away as slide out was retracted especially with slide toppers

    Emergency or not....traveling with slide out partially extended was just plain STUPID.
    All he did was cause MORE issues.......water/snow intrusions, damage to slide out mechanism, possible collision with other vehicles/stationary objects, illegal due to over width limit.

    :S :S
  • Let's hope he was just moving to a better place to clean it off.
  • You can't fix stupid.
    But, they probably had somewhere they had to be, family emergency, etc..

    Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I hope they made it to their destination with no problems or damage to their rig.

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