[A/S] Re: Temporary winterization

[Chris Koehn <timberguides@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thought I'd report back on how we weathered the storm here in Arkansas. 
We chose not to winterize our coach, which we are using as a bedroom 
while visiting folks here. It got down to 9 degrees a couple of nights 
last week. We kept the water tank mostly full (bucketing gallons of hot 
water from the house in the evening), put a 125W heat lamp in the pump 
compartment to keep things down there thawed out, kept the gray and 
black tanks mostly full- with a good dose of anti-freeze in them for 
good measure- and left faucets dripping a bit over night. The line 
going to the toilet got slushy overnight, but never froze solid.
Other than burning a 40 lb tank of LP every three days we were fine.
I've seen few more pathetic sights than our Airstream covered with snow 
and ice- but underneath it all she was just fine.
And I can't help mentioning: there is absolutely no way we would have 
been able to get to our destination in Hot Springs Village AR without 4 
wheel drive. We most certainly would have been stranded somewhere 
between here and Memphis- probably over the Christmas holiday. I 
stopped counting at 100 two wheelers off the road in that stretch..

Regards,

Chris K.
<www.koehnjourney.blogspot.com>