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…but seriously, who thinks the temperature is going to drop 50 degrees in one night?
When I woke up that cold November morning—2019—I could tell something was going to be different that day. The previous four days in Hohenwald, Tennessee were just amazing. Sure the night was a little chilly, but nothing we couldn’t deal with.
The temperature was barely dipping below 40 at night.
But the days were amazing! Mid sixties and hardly any clouds. Exactly what we’d been hoping for.
Four days earlier we’d arrived at Natchez Trace RV Resort and we’d even managed to score a full-hookup spot, but that sewage hookup ending up being a curse.
When I woke up the next morning our home was COLD. It wasn’t just cold, it was freezing. We don’t have a regular thermometer in the house, which is something I should put in the house, but we do have a workaround for getting a temperature. It involves turning on the kiddo’s heater, and it takes a digital reading of the temperature.
Anyway, the thermometer read 38 degrees, and that was in the room with our 4 kiddos. I knew it was going to be cold outside. But that didn’t prepare me for what I was supposed to do next.
Just for fun, I turned on the water, and it was completely frozen.
So, I dawned my coat and cloves and went outside to see the damage, and as soon as I opened the door I knew we weren’t going to stay at that park any longer. We had to get out of there … the only question was how long it was going to take.
As I went around to the other side of the rig, the side with all my hookups, and surveyed the scene. The first thing I saw was that my sewage hose had to go uphill a little bit to get to the sewage port in the ground—that meant leftovers in the hoses.
On a normal day, that wouldn’t be a big deal; I could just raise the hose up and let gravity do its job.
But today, with the sub 20 temperature, gravity wasn’t going to help.
And when I lifted the hose, I found out it was completely frozen; I was also terrified that the hose was going to explode.
But the problem I had was that I needed to unfreeze the water pipes in order to spray water into the hose to defrost it and clean it out.
I went to the basement and grabbed an extension cord, and then I went to the bathroom and grabbed our blowdryer.
Then I put hot air on the water pipes and then I was able to get water flow—after 35 minutes.
But once that happened, I was able to defrost the hose and clean that bad boy out and leave the park; and the best part?
The hose didn’t crack, and I’m still using it—6 months later.
I can’t speak for all hoses out there, but I can speak to these hoses, and they are amazing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/6″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” 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