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NotJustMagic

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I'm not going to fault them for this. There are tons of supply chain issues out there and we had to improvise on getting one project open because of electrical components supply issues. I'm never surprised anymore when a 3 week lead time item suddenly becomes a 9 week lead time item and then at 9 weeks it ends up taking another 3 weeks.
We have a project right now that the swtich gear is 2 years out... I have 3 projects in WI i've had to dig to everey corner of the earth to find breakers and even then; we're getting creative w/ disconnects and temporary breakers that will be switched out later. Crazy times.
 

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I have an audio project that went from two month lead to six month due to manufacturing and overseas shipping delays. And that was to just get part of it up and running. We are still waiting on components to finish the job that are starting to look like a year.
 
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mfl3cy

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Talked to my friend/rv neighbor. He works with Henkel (not for them). They have the switches. Sounds like east side of village will be operational today. West side will be down to the wire. (His words)... Still taking my gen-turi exhaust in case I need to run the generators.
 

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Remind me when RV's have to leave the Village? Is this a 8 AM Friday to noon on Sunday thing?

Curious as if you can stay Saturday night. That would make me A LOT more interested in buying.
 
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OK guys and gals, help me out with this. I'm confused over the location of the assigned electrical box and pull in/back in issue. If you look at the map, the electrical boxes for the end stalls are on the driver's side if you back in (like they're supposed to be.) So that would be the pattern down the line. The first to arrive for each slab could drive to their end, but the 2nd wouldn't want to drive in. It would make no sense to drive in if you are the 2nd person to arrive on your pad, especially if you are towing a trailer. How could you leave Friday with your truck (if you wanted to) or before your slab partner on Saturday/Sunday? Back out of your stall??? If everyone backed in like is normally done at a campground with this configuration then your electrical hookup would be on the back side (driver's side) . I plan to arrive, get frustrated, drive or back into my stall so that my electrical is on my driver's side and my grass is on the passenger side. Long term/short term intentions aside, that's the standard.
 
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What is lot G10 for?
I called and asked that he other day... it is primarily for all the hired help. All those folks that are security and gate staff... concessions and so forth.. it is where they park for the day...
 
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CYTruck

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OK guys and gals, help me out with this. I'm confused over the location of the assigned electrical box and pull in/back in issue. If you look at the map, the electrical boxes for the end stalls are on the driver's side if you back in (like they're supposed to be.) So that would be the pattern down the line. The first to arrive for each slab could drive to their end, but the 2nd wouldn't want to drive in. It would make no sense to drive in if you are the 2nd person to arrive on your pad, especially if you are towing a trailer. How could you leave Friday with your truck (if you wanted to) or before your slab partner on Saturday/Sunday? Back out of your stall??? If everyone backed in like is normally done at a campground with this configuration then your electrical hookup would be on the back side (driver's side) . I plan to arrive, get frustrated, drive or back into my stall so that my electrical is on my driver's side and my grass is on the passenger side. Long term/short term intentions aside, that's the standard.
I am also confused.... if you don't back in.. then everyone will need at least 55 ft of power cord from the back of their rv/camper to the electrical box.... and as you stated.. those pulling a camper.. will not be able to get their towing vehicle out for errands on Friday if they need to run for supplies... It seems like they should request that everyone back in..... but we also know that people requested to be parked next to each other.. so they could drop their awnings toward each other.. and share their party area..... requiring some to back in and the other to pull straight in.....
 
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mfl3cy

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I will be backing in. I will be using the grass on the passenger side, either as my secondary tailgate spot, or at the bare minimum to get things out of the storage bins and watch my outdoor tv. (I cannot believe that they thought of grass should be on driver side, still assume this was a big oversight) Either way, I will show the same courtesies to the person to the west, as they show me. Having said that, my main focus will be in the front of the pad

One thing that is overlooked is the mass exodus on Saturdays. I almost always stay until Sunday, and it was fun to witness the cluster that happened in the lots in years past. That was with people were driving forward (for the most part). Now you want 30-50ft rigs backing out into lanes from opposite directions. Disaster waiting to happen.(drinking, dark, emotions, little kids, etc). Should always drive out of a spot if it is possible.
 
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I'm setting the O/U at 5 hours after the game for the continuous flow of exiting traffic onto S. 4th. One exit for G6/G10/haunted forest/RV Village. Bring your patience.
 

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Update for some folks in case it's helpful:

I for the life of me couldn't understand why they assigned the grass spots the way they did (backwards in my opinion) and had been trying to get a response from the Cyclone Club since yesterday on the design/thought process on that front and just got off the phone with the guy there that handles parking. I was told they flipped this around/have/are swapping the painted arrows around (wasn't the case as of yeseterday morning when I was there). They aren't going to dictate how you use your spot and whether you back in/pull in/pull through, etc., but at least now if you back in as is more or less the general designed intent so that your electrical cords are at the back near the electrical box, your assigned grass pad will be on your vehicle passenger side so all your doors, awnings, etc will open up to your pad instead of that being backwards or you having to pull in and block your vehicle in on the middle of the pad.
 

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Update for some folks in case it's helpful:

I for the life of me couldn't understand why they assigned the grass spots the way they did (backwards in my opinion) and had been trying to get a response from the Cyclone Club since yesterday on the design/thought process on that front and just got off the phone with the guy there that handles parking. I was told they flipped this around/have/are swapping the painted arrows around (wasn't the case as of yeseterday morning when I was there). They aren't going to dictate how you use your spot and whether you back in/pull in/pull through, etc., but at least now if you back in as is more or less the general designed intent so that your electrical cords are at the back near the electrical box, your assigned grass pad will be on your vehicle passenger side so all your doors, awnings, etc will open up to your pad instead of that being backwards or you having to pull in and block your vehicle in on the middle of the pad.
Gotta get everybody doing it the same way unless there are two adjacent RVs who intentionally want to share one patch of grass. Otherwise you will have two tailgates fighting over one patch of grass with another nearby that is essentially unused. I just assumed that they would be back in spots and that the grass we would have would be on the passenger side - where bus and RV doors are.
 
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Update for some folks in case it's helpful:

I for the life of me couldn't understand why they assigned the grass spots the way they did (backwards in my opinion) and had been trying to get a response from the Cyclone Club since yesterday on the design/thought process on that front and just got off the phone with the guy there that handles parking. I was told they flipped this around/have/are swapping the painted arrows around (wasn't the case as of yeseterday morning when I was there). They aren't going to dictate how you use your spot and whether you back in/pull in/pull through, etc., but at least now if you back in as is more or less the general designed intent so that your electrical cords are at the back near the electrical box, your assigned grass pad will be on your vehicle passenger side so all your doors, awnings, etc will open up to your pad instead of that being backwards or you having to pull in and block your vehicle in on the middle of the pad.
This is VERY good news……
 

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Gotta get everybody doing it the same way unless there are two adjacent RVs who intentionally want to share one patch of grass. Otherwise you will have two tailgates fighting over one patch of grass with another nearby that is essentially unused. I just assumed that they would be back in spots and that the grass we would have would be on the passenger side - where bus and RV doors are.
Correct, I would have assumed the same, but the way they had painted/marked which grass pad was yours was the opposite of that and everyone was assigned the grass on their driver side. They said they have fixed/are fixing that and reversed/are reversing course on that. It should be marked correctly/as one would expect when everyone shows up on Friday morning and everyone should now be assigned the grass pad on their passenger side (fingers crossed).
 
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VeloClone

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Correct, I would have assumed the same, but the way they had painted/marked which grass pad was yours was the opposite of that and everyone was assigned the grass on their driver side. They said they have fixed/are fixing that and reversed/are reversing course on that. It should be marked correctly/as one would expect when everyone shows up on Friday morning and everyone should now be assigned the grass pad on their passenger side (fingers crossed).
Yeah, I know. I was shocked when I saw that photo with the arrow pointing to the right of the spot.
 
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VeloClone

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Hopefully people respect that the other grass area is their neighbor's and not theirs and don't try to take anymore than their pop out requires. Frankly the whole RV, including the slides should be able to sit on the pad so they aren't taking any of their neighbor's lawn.