Across most of the country people have been victims of an Arctic freeze for more than a week. That's why we left the mid Atlantic and headed south. Mother nature saw us. She said "you can run but you can't hide". Maybe there is really no place to hide.
We are now in Robertsdale, Alabama, better known as down south, off the Gulf of Mexico. We are in what is suppose to be warm weather. Yes it is winter season but this is ridiculous. Every night I disconnect the fresh water hose to prevent freezing. Our auxiliary catalytic heater runs most of the day to kill the chill in the air that seems to go right through you. We run our heat pump during the late evening and switch to our heater when the temperature gets below freezing.
The cold has a chilling effect on socialization. People have been outside only when necessary. To walk the dog, dump their trash, maybe go shopping. But over all we have all hunkered down in our cocoons waiting for the big thaw.
I've spent time with freezing water hoses. Having to bring them inside at night to keep the water left in them from freezing up. And the park cuts off the water between 4:00pm and 8:00am each evening. My site feed pipe has been frozen for a couple of days and I've had to go a site away just to get water. It's nice to have extra hose
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