Our neighbors have an old fencer (70+ years old) who has been living in a camper trailer on their place, not just in the summer but all winter! There's an old house there that they told him he could live in but he thought the electricity would be too expensive. He has a home in Chinook but reports are that it is falling down. We really can't figure out why he wanted to stay around here unless he had nowhere else to go. The last time he has been out of there was over 60 days ago and that was just for an afternoon to go get groceries before he got snowed in again after being there for about 30 days. No on lives on that road anymore and the county plows gave up trying to keep it open. M and R snowmobiled food to him a couple of times but he was pretty well stocked. M asked him if he was making marks on the wall each day as if he was in prison.
J finally got up there with our plow this week and then R went up with the loader tractor to dig out his tractor so he could dig out his car and pickup. R said he could barely see the camper and they shoveled for an hour to get the tractor out. The snow was probably good insulation. During one storm he went out and shoveled every hour so that the snow didn't block his door and trap him inside. It started to get difficult to get through the snow to the well for water so he started melting snow--there was plenty of that just outside his door. M made him promise to call with his cell phone every couple of days so that we would know he was still okay. We were hoping he didn't have to eat his dog or vice versa. His furnace went out at some point so he was heating the place with the oven. He ordered a new one but we were only able to get it to him a couple of weeks ago by snowmobile. It cost him $1200. I think that would have bought a lot of electricity. I also think that he must be crazy to stay up there in that camper or that he is now after being stuck there alone for months.
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