Whelp, the snows started and the wind's picking up.
Will let y'all know how the Monocoque handles 60mph gusts and two feet of snow....
Update: 23 inches of snow, 55 mph gusts. The trailer build came through like a champ. We chose to shelter in a commercial parking lot for this, parked near buildings that would help us with the hard gusts of wind expected. The tow vehicle was under a 10 foot drift thanks to my poor choice of a "sheltered" parking spot, but other than having to shovel out that insanity and the occasional slight rocking of the trailer during the worst gusts, we rode it out with no issues at all. We both woke up at three am to perfect silence and the moon shining through tree branches and into our skylight. Romantic and beautiful.
Last year this time we were freezing, crammed almost full-time into the bedroom of a crappy Philadelphia two story walk-up in K&A. The rodent invasion we were trying to prevent once it got cold, the poor insulation, the terrible drafts, the horrible gas heater... it was hard to look forward to fixing up the house amid the constant insanity of the seller's family butting into everything and sabotaging our efforts at every turn.
Our monthly gas bills for the winter there were more than we paid for our boondocking trailer.
This year we are warm and happy in our fully paid-off stealth tiny house, and our stress is a tiny fraction of what we had. Weather bad? Worried about getting to work after the storm? Move closer! My monthly heating bill is averaging a little over $22 in propane. My only regret is that we didn't get started on this sooner.
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