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[Texas Clodhopper]

O boy! Hopefully, they will have a driver's lounge with a TV and magazines. Truckers Life is my favorite.

I know I'm making jokes when it is not a joking situation. Have you looked up what the codes mean?

 

[Neal]

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That's why this thing is gold. Tells you what that stuff means and may offer a fix. Hope it's not too bad and you can be on the road again soon.

Resume thread topic...

 

[Fatboy2004]

The park is OK! And with all the gazebos in the park, not one of them is damaged. Even the picnic tables are in the exact same spot as when I left. So what I thinking is that a small tornado came through the area of my RV barn, and boom, that's the end of that! That consensus is supported by the number of trees that are down in that area as well. So I guess I should have had the RV barn built about 50' to the left!

Or built your self like the standing gazebos !!!

 

[Jim]

This guy was at the park in Silver Springs yesterday! My neighbor, a couple of lots down, took the picture. Pretty cool!

 

[Neemer]

I had no idea FL had a monkey population.

 

[lostinfla]

When Hurricane Andrew went through Miami, the zoo lost a lot of animals and birds to the environment. That may be the reason.

 

[Headhunter]

Wow Jim that was one hell of a storm. Sorry that your RV garage got taken out. Knowing you it will be back up in no time, bigger and better.

Just take it in stride like you always do. The RV park looks great. Will be seeing you on the 4th.

REgards HH

 

[FLSteve]

I think this is the back story on the monkeys (from the internet)​

Silver Springs Park has been one of the main tourist attractions of the place, but the monkey infestation began about 80 years ago. Now they are almost 300 in number, and their population is expected to double in the next few years.

The monkeys belong to the species Rhesus macaque, indigenous to south and southeast Asia. So how did these monkeys land up in the Floridan Silver Springs Park?

In 1938, a tour boat operator, Colonel Tooey, released just 6 Rhesus macaque monkeys onto a small island, later converted to Silver Springs Park. His motive was to create a park closely resembling the Tarzan story; therefore, he procured the monkeys from New York City.

But what Colonel Tooey didn’t know is that this particular species of monkeys are excellent swimmers – they escaped the premises within minutes of releasing them. Thus, to replace them, six more monkeys were bought. They, too, escaped like the previous batch. By the early 1980s, these monkeys had already spread across what now is the 5000-acre Silver Springs Park.

As they began to grow in numbers, the Floridan government ordered the removal of 1000 of these monkeys from the place between 1984 and 2012. 20 female monkeys of the same species were sterilized too.

The officials believe that if they can sterilize half of the existing female population, they can significantly reduce the growth of this species. However, the removal and sterilization procedure was stopped in 2012 when authorities discovered that these monkeys were sold to biomedical researchers to be experimented upon. This raised concern among animal rights researchers too.