Marietta Unit, New Matamoras Floods, Memorial Day Weekend 2018, Auxiliary Batteries and Whipple Maintenance

- Apparently, New Matamoras floods less than Marietta.  Marietta's problem is that it's near where the Muskingum, Little Muskingum Rivers and the Duck Creek that meet the Ohio River there.  If there's a big enough storm, all of its water is going to converge on the city.

- This is Memorial Day Weekend 2018.  Today, I did some rounds looking at campground capacities and reporting them to the Buckeye Trail Association Facebook group.

- My auxiliary/ house batteries are somehow disconnected from both the generator and the cab's alternator.  But I'm able to charge them now by jumping them with my car.  It takes about 1hr 15min to get them full.  Lightning is in the forecast for tomorrow, so I plan on tracing their power lines.  It's possible that they all need to be replaced?

- The maintenance priority on the Whipple Section is blazing.  We may have a marathon runner/ thru hiker come through.  He's going to need the trail's navigation to become more efficient. 

Air Conditioning, Weather Station, Towel & Tablet

The chassis air conditioner might be working, but for now, the it's A.C. outlets have quit. I might have a fuse out?  I don't know if the auxiliary house batteries are charging? Right now, they're holding at 11.8V. I'd s
Like to see them at 12.7V and im pretty sure that that the dual mode rocker switch that is used to charge them is broken?

- There's a ton of projects waiting to get done in the bin areas above one of the beds/ tables.

- I just installed new alkaline AA batteries into my outdoor weather station. I secure it to the back of the motorhome with stick on Velcro.

- I found my towel. For the past few days, I was drying off with the paper hand towels in the shower houses. I'm too tall for my motorhome`s shower and I just use it for storage.

- My tablet is very sensitive to direct sunlight. I'm sitting in my camp chair now that was over in the shade before, but it wanted to overheat in the sunlight.

Exhaust Header and Mackinaw Bridge Walk

There's been some trouble today mounting an exhaust header to the engine.  I think yesterday (or the day before) I had to get gaskets for both the right, left bank and throttle body manifold.  I think my mechanic got the right bank somewhat mounted and should finish tomorrow.  The right bank had the EGR valve and tube and there might have been something else different with it?  I know from having  worked inside the dog house and having tried to change the spark plugs and wires that this is a difficult side of the engine to access.

I forgot to bring my Mechanix gloves with me to the storage unit today to see if one of my house batteries has a leak?  My mechanic seems to think that I do?  I'm planning to buy a battery charger in about 3 days.  I tried recharging my portable jump box, but it had a malfunction.  That's the second one in four years that I've gone through.  I'm really leaning on getting a corded battery charger, but they can't go on an extension cord because they draw too many amps.  So maybe, I'll just get another portable unit?  I don't want to get one that's on wheels because it's not very portable.

I just got a notice regarding the walk for the Mackinaw Bridge for September 3rd.  I've scheduled it and considering that we'll have to cross Ohio, probably diagonally to get there, I might pick up others along the way?