Winnipeg to Florida in February

Drive until someone points at the plug hanging below the bumper and asks " Whadatfer?":B Seriously, you are probably looking at southern Tennessee before you don't have to worry about freezing.

Can't give a geographical location to dewinterize, but we watch the weather forecast to see when the night temps will be above freezing for the areas we will travelling in. One year it was safe to dewinterize in Ohio, a few years later in the same area we woke up to temps of -29F. On an average southern TN would be safe, but have also see ice covered water in the ditches in southern GA. It all depends on the weatherman.

Ken

From KC I'd go St L and then Nashville as a longer stop. With power I'd dewinterize there and then plan on running the furnace on the run to Fla.

Cheers folks, thanks for the comments

Here's the trick. Attach a snow shovel to the front of your rig. Then head south until somebody says, "What's That?"

sadly we didnt get to take this road trip. the dishwasher in the stick house blew up and flooded the house just before christmas. we had the insurance company come in and clean it all up and rip out all the damaged stuff, we are finally putting it all back together this next 2 weeks :(

we are on to planning another 2 week trip out west to the mountains, may stay in canada this trip though. I'll post my plans in another thread.

cheers gang.

How far south do I need to drive to reach warmer temps and dewinterize ?

My first trip south I learned the hard way that Kentucky is definitely NOT far enough south to dewinterize! :B

And don't be tempted when it you get a day of warm weather in Georgia either. You can be snow and iced in the next day! :W

I now wait until I am completely into Florida.

Have a safe trip down and do take your time and pull off the road when the weather turns bad. At that time of the year you WILL be dodging bad weather. Southern states are NOT prepared for taking care of the roads during winter.

I don't know what they do in Canada but I also learned real quick that the southern folks don't have snowplows, don't salt and basically everything shuts down with a 2 inch snowfall.

Being from Wisconsin I found that a real shocking experience for me! AND dangerous as the southern drivers do NOT know how to drive in even the lightest snow. One inch of snow on the road and I saw 8 or 120 cars careening off the road in front of me and taking others with them when I decided not to ever drive in the south when snowing.:R

That's because they have summer tires all year round as they rarely get snow. We always used to wait until we saw no more signs that said bridge ices over before the roadway"