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02-26-2021, 07:06 AM #21
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02-27-2021, 01:25 AM #22
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I'm glad you made it through ok. I was in West Texas for it too. That was something else, and I'm comparing to Pocono weather. We didn't skirt for it, and out cold line to the kitchen froze. Mercy of mercies, it thawed and didn't burst. Our fresh tank also froze. When the park lost water pressure we found out that the fresh tank was also useless to us. Luckily we didn't lose power--praise God. I'm not sure that lead acid battery would've lasted a day... I blew through 2 - 20 lb tanks and 1 - 30 lb. I was trying to save those 30 lb tanks for that Monday night, which I knew would be the coldest. That strategy paid off.
Found one place in Navasota that was selling propane that week. My neighbor and I went in my truck since it was 4WD. That place was cash only and the line was an hour and a half long.2018 Grand Design Reflection 337RLS
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03-01-2021, 06:23 AM #23
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Great thread with great stories.
We ordered a 397TH last July an it came in back in November. We ordered it from a dealer 1500 km away and when it was time to pick it up there was a heavy snowfall. We didn’t want to cross the continental divide in the heavy snow so we decided to wait. After Christmas the weather turned cold and it was -50 C plus good winds where we bought it from. Again we decided to wait as we didn’t want to try the move in those temperatures.
Finally on Friday we picked it up. We spent the first night in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and it was -21 C. I didn’t know if the heating system was up to the task but we let the Onan run all night with the fireplace on high and the furnace going. I was surprised it was able to maintain a nice 20 C temp in the main area and the bedroom. The garage door was kept closed and was right around 0 C even though the thermostat was set to 20 C in there. We didn’t put any water in the unit yet as we will only be in it a couple nights.
Last night we stayed just outside Lethbridge, Alberta The wind was howling all night with temperatures just below freezing. I bumped the thermostat up to 21 C and the furnace was able to easily maintain the heat.
The first night the Onan ran 13.5 hours and we used 57 litres of gasoline. We did use a fair bit of power however. The convection oven ran for half an hour, the tv was on for several hours, both couch warmers were on, the fireplace was on the whole time, the furnace was running 90% of the time.
Fortunately we are not in a Texas situation so diesel, gas, and propane are easy to come by. I don’t know just how cold outside it could be to stay comfortable inside but I can say that if propane and gas are easy to come by that -20 C is easily do-able. I’d like to see if the tank heaters could deal with those temperatures but that will have to wait for now.
Hopefully our southern neighbours are out of the deep freeze soon.
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03-01-2021, 06:33 AM #24
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^^^Texas has been back to normal as it gets, at least here near Corpus, since 2/21.
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03-01-2021, 06:36 AM #25
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That’s good to hear. I was looking at all the “Frozen in Texas” posts here and didn’t actually look at the weather down there. Glad to hear you guys are back to normal.
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03-01-2021, 07:32 AM #26
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03-01-2021, 08:49 AM #27
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Yup about as normal as it gets, all the palm trees look bad, turned all brown. The freeze really took a toll on the greenery. Diesel here on the island jumped to 2.75 - 2.99 at most of the small fuel stations. Filled up at Walmart Murphy's couple days ago for 2.25. Saw on news this morning the fuel prices may go up to 3.00. We were going to extend our stay a little, campground says they are full up. Campground changed over to a KOA, raised all the prices. Well at least spring break is here, the Island and further south Corpus, Aransas etc will get real busy. For us we are out of here Saturday, going up to the Bastrop / Austin area for a month or so., doc appt, visit friends and such.
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