It’s 56 degrees this morning. Not too bad. I don’t have to bundle up too much, but I do need to wear a hat. The only problem is that this I’m inside at the moment. Outside it’s 29, and for South Louisiana there’s no other word for it than cold. So when my coworker says it’s freezing outside it’s not hyperbole.
I’ve got the heater in the RV going full bore. It helps raise the temprerature by 25 degrees, so it can handle a normal Louisiana Winter day. Those come in around the high 40s or low 50s. Winter in the heart of Acadiana is usually from February 6th through the 7th, and that includes all day on the 7th, too.
Today’s one of those days you just have to barrel on through, so if wearing a hat inside is a pas bon I’ll just have to weather for now, pardon the pun.
Living in an RV under freezing conditions requires a bit more preparation than bundling up. There are pipes you rarely have to consider in a regular home. For instance, my water comes in through a hose. I’ve seen what freezing can do to a hose. One early spring in Dallas I uncoiled my hose to water the front lawn. I watered the side lawn instead through a two-foot slit where the frost had burrowed through just a month before.
So you have to keep the water moving. Simple, turn on the taps. Then there’s that other pipe that would probably not do well if frozen. Yeah, all that water inside has got to go somewhere eventually, right? Now, I could read an entire Popular Science in the “library,” but even I can keep the pipes flowing 24/7. So I carefully considered how was I going to keep the waste line frost free. I worried about it until I came up with a brilliant idea: quit worrying about it. That was easy.
We had a cavernous bathroom in Texas as far away from the heat source as possible, so we invested in a tiny ceramic heater to take the edge off of the tile floor. The master bath in Ocala is a bit more spacious, but Ocala is one of the birthplaces of heat, so the heater’s not as critical. But it is in an RV trying to withstand a temp that’s a few degrees colder than my refrigerator!
Well, I’m set for now and have withstood this Arctic onslaught in Cajunville. Weather Guy on Channel 3 says we’re in for it again tonight. Let’s see if I can make it two in a row.
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