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Naples Fla to NYC/North Jersey
Left Naples Thursday AM up I-75 across Gainesville to I-10 to I-95. No problems, little or no traffic. I-95 from Jacksonville to North Jersey, clear sailing on the road. Southbound I-95 at Florida border was moderately backed up as the State police checked the cars and let the trucks go by. Only indication on the road that anything was amiss,was the digital signs on the highway telling visitors to quarantine, wash your hands etc.
Traffic around the metro areas at Friday “rush hour” (DC,Baltimore NJ) was strangely quiet, like a Sunday morning. No one at any toll booths. Our understanding is some fuel stops closed early so you need to plot your course if you plan to travel. We stopped for the night at the North Carolina rest stop/welcome center. Not many cars or campers so at 2am the panhandlers knocked on the door…it’s amazing the effect that the sound of cocking the chamber of a shotgun has on those proposed visitors.
Bottom line, we flew home, beat our 25 year best driving time by 2 hours.
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This brought back a memory of being awakened at 1 a.m. in a Flying J parking lot for someone asking for money. This is a drawback to owning a Prevost, it attracts lots of attention, and sometimes the wrong kind.
When they ask for money it is always for gas to get home or they need a motel room for the family for the night, but no family in sight.
I shudder to think how many more people we might see like this in the coming years.
Glad you had an otherwise safe trip.
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Put a sign on the door:
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CAUTION: Due to difficult financial times I am practicing rationing of ammunition. NO WARNING SHOTS WILL BE FIRED!
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I read a science fiction novel in high school that has stuck in the very bottom pit of my stomach all these year. It spelled out what we are going through now. Yes, folks, as G-Man said, things are going to get very bad. Y’all might think im nuts, but we could have a scenario like the “Mad Max” movies when we have 25,000,000 unemployed.
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C’bus, the sky is not falling, all will be well in time. If not, at least you have a hurd of Airstreams should you need to hole up for 5 years.
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Tom, don’t want to go to heavy on the doom porn, but unfortunately everything will not be ok. We have never shutdown the global economy like this. Anecdotal stuff I am hearing from friends and business associates is not good. About 25% of small business will not be coming back.
I am not sure what affect this is having on the Prevost side of the RV world, but I imagine the rest of the RV industry is about to go down in flames.
I think many here on PC will be ok, I am sure most have saved for a rainy day, but nearly half of Americans do not have $2k saved for an emergency.
The virus is one thing, but the real problem underneath all this was the economy, which is why it folded so fast. Best wishes to all here!
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I don’t disagree with G-man except on his view of the extent of financial damage.
Businesses go bankrupt when they cannot pay lenders, and lenders typically force them into bankruptcy for protection. If they go to either Chapter 7 or 11 a lender recovers very little if any. If the lender works with them, and the landlord, and the suppliers many will survive. The extent of how many businesses end up gone is totally dependent on those who extend credit, and if those lenders do not provide some relief I will bet their loss is going to be far greater because in a fire sale business assets go very cheap, and vacant buildings will sit empty.
I really am opposed to government intervention, but if good legislation can be created to ease the burden on both lenders and borrowers we can get back to a thriving economy. If not, G-man is going to be right.
As far as Prevost owners are concerned, those who own the coach free and clear will only get an immediate financial hit because the values are going down fast as the financial pain spreads. Those who are making payments but are having difficulty paying them run the risk of losing them especially as the market values drop, lenders see the value of their security drop, and decide to seize any whose loans are not up to date so they can sell them before the market goes away.
There will be no winners except those who have assets to spend and who wanted a Prevost, and I bet I can count those on the fingers of one hand.
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As I said G-Man, “in time”.
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We are waaaay off topic, but:
Live within ones means, and SAVE SAVE SAVE. That’s what my daddy taught me. Eventually I listened.
This goes for people and business, and yes, the government too. But as you know, that’s NOT what’s been going on in America for a long time. So when there’s a hic-up, things fall apart and OUCH !! Then the government/parent intervenes and enables more bad behavior.
Will we ever learn?
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