The Cold Got Us

We left yesterday to come a couple hundred miles west. It was in the 20’s and wasn’t supposed to get above freezing. We called ahead to make sure they still had water at San Angelo State Park and since they did we emptied our fresh water tank and drained the water lines to make sure nothing would freeze on the trip. The temperature actually dropped to about 16 and we drove through snow flurries. Ugh!

Eventually we ended up here. But first we went to our site at the north end of the park where all the water was frozen. I called the gate and they had us come back to the south side where they said they’d find us a site with water. But they couldn’t; all the spigots were freezing up despite being wrapped in insulation. We ended up backing in by the hosts’ trailer and using their water to fill our tank. Two hours later (and about 6 hours after we’d started out) we were finally set up. The inside of the trailer was 35 degrees. With two electric heaters and the propane furnace we got it up to 70 in about an hour. But we still had no water because evidently there was enough water left in the lines somewhere to freeze.

So we went to the restroom where we found although the sink had no water the shower was still running and we filled our five gallon container. Fortunately it takes very little water to flush an RV toilet.

The forecast did not look good. This morning Bud took an electric heater outside and aimed it under the trailer. He thought the stubborn freeze might be in the pickup tube from the tank, even though we had our tank heater on. Just after another very kind host refilled our water jug and brought us an extra 4 gallons in an old jug they had (they were about to shut off the water to the restroom) Bud tried our water pump again and it worked. That frozen part let loose about 20 hours after we got set up.

It’s 28 and sunny now. The snow has evaporated.

So Matey and I took a walk. Much better.

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  1. Joan Berwaldt's avatar Joan Berwaldt says:

    That’s pretty chilly weather for that far south!!!!

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