good morning youtube world hope you guys are doing well eric here from nomadic fanatic
it is a beautiful nice day today here in illinois but as you can see well i mean i've checked into
base camp everything looks okay except for the three days of flood warnings coming up here
i'm not the guy nah i'm getting out of here a little different i actually am not bringing tater
tot with me on this trip no i'm just bringing the rv and the and the bike and uh i'm leaving
illinois for the weekend although if it's i'll be looking at the cameras to see how the flooding is
doing at base camp it worries me slightly we'll just have to wait and see what's going on i just
don't want to sit in the house at base camp in the rain i'd rather go out in the nature
in the in the rain if it's going to rain it might not rain i don't know yet so we're going
on an adventure i'm uploading this video with some nomad internet there's a link below if you
need some mobile unlimited internet otherwise thanks for joining me guys i am really looking
forward to this video this is going to be a fun adventure let's head on over into kentucky today
do
again i got you guys again you guys know me by now never trust any hole i take you into
what a beautiful little free camp this is a free campground here just outside of morgantown
kentucky and it's kind of makeshift they got some little fire rings here somebody even gathered some
sticks and stuff i don't think i'm gonna have a fire tonight i may have a propane fire i don't
know but this i mean one other thing though about the river because we are expecting some rain to
come in this afternoon and tonight you'll notice how dark brown and muddy these leaves are on the
bank see even the tree trunks how dirty they are that's because this has flooded very very recently
in fact look at all that mud right there this has just gone back down and we just got another flood
warning here on this exact river so going to be keeping an eye on it tonight but we should be good
as long as i roll out in the morning okay so let me think about this real quick you saw drone shots
but you're not gonna see any gopro shots i did not crash my drone still what is this now two
years i think with the dji mavic air still have not crashed that drone however you have not seen
any gopro 9 footage today we'll go inside actually can you see the suction cup mounts
the problem is the decals are not flush with the side go inside yeah so that is my gopro 9
was my gopro 9 completely smashed i also broke my dual suction cup mount
media mod box is okay i think so we'll save that but when i went out there
and after i'd run over it i grabbed the gopro and the red light was still blinking i couldn't
stop it couldn't turn the power off the only thing i could do was pull that battery and
you know what that does that takes away the last clip which in this case was the entire
clip as i was coming in i was getting all these fancy shots from different parts of the rv so
oh well i think i was running the dash cam you might still get some good shots somewhere in there
but you know gopros are replaceable the footage that you capture on these adventures sometimes
is not oh well let's go walk back up to the entrance so i can get my steps and show you what
this place is called and a few things i'm going to put the onion away because it's getting windy
yeah i don't trust it i'm i'm gonna roll the awning back up also even with that rain
on the way this is the first hottest day of the year for me up here in north here
the nearest city the nearest big city is bowling green and today we're hitting 83 degrees
and i'll tell you what it's it's humid already oh yeah again this is the road that i was coming down
that i lost the footage of that's why we're doing this walk i love the rock face there it just it
feels like the smoky mountains tennessee you know kentucky area and then here's the uh little little
waterfall here trickling off the edge here i lost my awesome driving shot of that but at least we
get to peek at it one more time it goes up pretty high actually or starts way up high all right
we're up at the top of the hill near the entrance the rv is down there around the river bend
on the water you can see how how dirty the water is and this is this is after the floods have
receded but they're but they're coming back like i said we're not going to be here when the floods
come back i don't mess around when there's flood warnings in fact even just staying here tonight
is probably a little too risky for me in an rv but i'ma keep an eye on it before i go to bed
i'll probably be up late editing and watching tv and everything anyway but there's two old
buildings here i'm not sure if this was a pump house it's definitely some older brick there
boarded up windows and then this building here well it has two old air conditioners in the window
look at the the bottom there though that i mean that water can come up
really high around here if it gets up that high and some information that i was basically looking
for it's called the green river so there's a map here the green river here in butler county
and something about a new 14 inch minimum size limit for a fish if you want to fish here if
you have a kentucky fishing license so looks like they're still allowing overnight camping
and parking so that's awesome i'm gonna head back to the rv and hang out with jax for a little bit
yeah so i'm packing it up a little earlier than i wanted to it's not even actually dark yet but
as you can hear that's going on the cool thing about the little propane fire though
it's pretty easy to turn it off you don't have to wait for the wood to stop burning or put water on
anything although it is getting sprinkled on right now just gonna give it about 10 minutes and then
i'll put it under the rv it'll be cool enough to slide the whole thing under the rv for the night
problem is base camp i was filming a little time lapse out there and then i looked at the cameras
live what's going on at base camp we just left base camp like nine hours ago check this out all
right so it looks a little moist in the front yard no biggie another shot of the front yard there
go to the backyard here this is alarming folks there it's literally a lake around my house
now i've seen it wet i've seen it moist before this is very very troublesome right there that
is a lot of standing water around the base of base camp there there's the shot on the other side so
this is where the rv is normally parked that is just a massive amount of water around the house
and it definitely concerns me um i don't know if i should have left but i personally would
much rather be out in nature in the rain than sitting in a house in the rain however
uh it is moist we're gonna have to deal with that when we get back okay yeah jax doesn't seem
overly concerned about the rain outside no you didn't even want to go exploring i i couldn't even
get you to go play by the water you just wanted to stay by the rv in the hot fire well what's up with
that what do you mean you don't know that's your fault you just going to sleep the night away then
you want to watch a movie you want some netflix maybe you don't know you want to
pick something i'll let you pick yeah you're the good boy him yeah him he's a good good boy
good good good boy needless to say i'm probably not going to sleep too well knowing there's a
river right there that has already given me a warning saying it's going to flood or
it will flood no matter what but to what degree we have to wait and find out and so i'm not going
to sleep too well tonight i mean i'm not stuck here i could i could leave if i want to it's just
goodness i know we're not going outside we're going to watch we're going to watch tv netflix
jax and i have decided on the unabomber there's a eight part mini series of the of the unabomber so
we're gonna watch true crime are you tired yeah but you've been sleeping oh oh just got a whiff
of cat breath oh that was that was delayed but it is lingering oh my goodness it's lingering
it's like everywhere up in the air all right let's watch some netflix i'll clear the recliner and
we'll snuggle and then jackson i'll catch you here in the morning we'll find out how far this rip you
guys remember what it looked like we'll see what the green river looks like when wake up okay guys
all right yeah so new plan as i am just slipping and sliding like crazy out here
before it gets any worse i'm not the guy i'm getting the heck out of here guys i'm gonna
head about an hour down to uh bowling green and um i'm gonna get on some hard
concrete away from a flooding river you ever feel like it's just not your night tonight
we ain't going nowhere we are one hundred percent stuck as chuck i have tried to jam some
sticks and wood and twigs uh behind my tires to get traction and nothing happening just three
ridiculous i have to walk slow so i don't slip and fall on my face here yeah it is just a
disaster here and with no signs of this letting up anytime soon i mean i am out here in the middle of
nowhere yes it's a county park i called aaa they are supposed to send a wrecker out here to to
winch me out of the mud i don't know what's gonna happen i'm actually still waiting for a word back
from the company here locally to find out what they're gonna do and how we're gonna do this
good morning everyone it is the next day i am trying to keep a positive attitude and
work my way through this uh we are still stuck here i put some more branches under there but
it is just a soupy mess however four straight wreckers uh had cancelled on me overnight i have
another one scheduled to leave elizabethtown at 9 8 no 8 a.m and arrive i supposed to get here at 9
30 in the morning and hopefully they can wench me from here get me onto the solid road here and then
we'll be fine to get out of here and i always feel like there should be a lesson so you know me doing
this 10 years yeah it was beautiful yesterday when i rolled in but you knew the rain was coming eric
you never park an rv on grass eric eric are you listening to this in the future eric
you never park an rv on wet grass and you don't leave it there if it's going to be wet later
these rigs are heavy you cannot just um yeah so i'm not going to deflate the tires because
that's not going to work in this situation if i were in sand i could probably figure that out but
it is a swampy soupy chocolaty muddy mess right now so i didn't get a whole
lot of sleep last night i'm going to make some coffee and some breakfast
and wait for a phone call i didn't bring the phone out i better go grab my phone
so that out there is the continuing to rise green river i know it looks like the brown
river out there expected to crest in three days actually so that tow truck could not get here
faster i mean i i i'm ready guys i am i am panicked i i don't feel good and i want out
of here quick this is scary this is actually kind of scary all right see the flashing lights look at
this we're moving he is winching me out of here and i'm kind of turning the wheel here as we go
i need to pay attention here
we are out guys just like that oh boy i don't know what else to say guys don't do what i did
just just don't ever do what i did we're back on solid ground here triple a hooked me up we are
going to be getting back on the road here as soon as they take my money yeah that's right if you're
in an ar hey i'll i'll let you know once we get parked here but we're out of here man ladies and
gentlemen we're on solid ground this adventure ends right here this adventure ends the next one
believe me this will not be the first time i screw up however some helpful advice to you guys
stay off the damn grass in an rv i don't care how dry and beautiful it is don't
do it if there's rain coming get back onto normal ground uh boondocking and camping in an
rv is there's always a risk man and if you think triple a is like a wonderful they are a wonderful
service they have they have saved my butt quite a few times however your premium rv membership
to aaa is not going to cover your expenses especially this one okay they can't just send out
any tow truck you get three service calls a year whether it's a lockout uh getting towed to a shop
or getting winched out of a muddy campground you get three of those and aaa only covers 500 of
that this guy charges 250 an hour of travel time he's 90 minutes away you do the math i'm broke
probably one of the most painful mistakes i've made in quite some time
and right now i'm just happy to be back on solid ground to be honest
base camp it let's go check out the flooding i'm gonna enjoy my time here in kentucky when
i get back to base camp we'll take a look at what happened just like uh anybody else whose place got
flooded or there's a hurricane or something yeah you leave you come back and assess the damage
i can't tell what's going on remotely we'll figure it out though and just so you know we are at flood
stage one here on the green river in kentucky we are expected to hit stage three in 72 hours
it's gonna get bad matter of fact that whole bed that's their boat launch over there is gone i
don't know if you saw my if i panned over there yesterday or not but it's gone the boat the boat
launch is gone over there oh wow yeah the stairs to the beach over there now lead to the river now
oh jesus jeez eric i'm gonna head over to uh the bowling green kentucky cracker barrel and then
um i got something fun in my next video so hey two days and i'll have a much better video with
les eric being dumb yeah thanks for joining me guys i'll see you next time
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