Today we had our first experience with camping in the snow along with an overnight low of 15 degrees. We returned from visiting the kids yesterday around 5PM and the temperature was 82 degrees. As the front went through we received a huge blast of heavy winds for about 30 minutes and by 10PM the temperature was down to 32 degrees. When we got up the next morning it was snowing and the temperature was 22 degrees. That’s a huge change in temperature. To avoid any issues with the freezing temperatures we unhooked our water and sewer connections and thoroughly drained all the hoses before the front arrived. I placed a remote temperature sensor in the water bay (which is heated as long as we run the gas furnace) and the temperature in the compartment never dropped below 34 even when the outside temperature got down to 15 degrees the following night.
We didn’t want to go out and contribute to the madness on the roads so we hunkered down in the camper all day although Beth did leave to go to the campground laundry facility. The next day the temperature climbed back up to 50 degrees and most of the snow was melted by the end of the day.
