Central Florida Freeze

No harm in putting a 110VAC light on, the old style that gets hot, in the basement area.

I'm also in central FL and it said to myself last night, "I need to drain the lines" then promptly forgot :-/

Getting older sucks.

The good news: It only got to 33, though it was predicted to be ~25. Tonight it's predicted to hit 24, and in case they're right this time I want to be ready. I don't have time to go get antifreeze. I have a blow-out plug but am not sure I'll be able to get a compressor on it. I don't know how much propane I have for the furnace (just got the RV) but I can try that. Do I just do that and drain the lines and hope for the best?

cdevidal wrote:
I don't know how much propane I have for the furnace (just got the RV) but I can try that.

WH on and furnace will be just fine.

2oldman wrote:
No. It takes sustained 25 or below type temperatures to be any concern at all. Get your night's sleep at home.

This is dangerous advice.

Water will freeze at 32 degrees. Wind chill will help evaluate how quickly any non-animate item will reach the prevailing ambient temperature (loose its stored heat).

Water actually freezing and doing damage is a function of the actual temperature it obtains and the time it stays at that temperature.

The ambient predicted temperature, the length of time of predicted sub-freezing temperature, plus the wind chill should help you decide.

Hence, 25 degrees for as an example of one hour duration with a minimal or no wind chill factor is of no concern since inside the RV it will probably never even reach freezing especially if the temperatures had been warm previously.

However, 25 degrees for 4 hours or more with a high windchill factor immediately following several days of near-freezing temperatures is a great concern.

Aaaaaaah....32-degree lows.....That's a heat wave for us this time of year...

You're welcome to come on down if you get tired of it. You have an RV so there's no excuse not to :B

I get amused when hearing the complaints of northerners who weren't aware that North Florida can get so cold. Now South Florida, that's a different story. That's a very different place down there. Spanish speakers, orange groves, aligators, pythons, lots of bugs, hurricanes, blue beaches, tourists, high humidity, hot winters; we just don't have those things up here, or at least not in those quantities. I regard everything south of Cocoa to be an entirely different country. Up here, it's rednecks and Navy workers and pine trees and cows and short winters with a half dozen hard freezes per year. Basically, it's South Georgia.

I swear, if it gets any colder, I'm moving to Florida. They say it's always warm in Florida. ;)

Ice cube trays don't freeze the minute you put them in the freezer.

I don't know about your fridge but mine makes ice cubes in less than an hour! :W
It will be below freezing here in Florida from 9pm until 8am tomorrow morning. Plenty of time to make ice cubes inside those 1-1/2 inch plastic water lines.

Other than having to winterize the MH it sure isn't a big deal.
'2 whole days' of cold weather vs '6 months' of down right frigid weather not meant for man nor beast?

Yup I'll take these '2 days' of somewhat cold weather hands down and with a smile on my face!

You can't scare or make me ever go back up North to live!:B

DownTheAvenue wrote:
.However, 25 degrees for 4 hours or more with a high windchill factor immediately following several days of near-freezing temperatures is a great concern.

I agree. So how's the wind forecast, and has it been cold lately?

I would think that if the weather's been unseasonably cold for days, we would have seen this post days ago.

There is little to no wind expected. I did find something cool about my RV. While I was looking inside the area with the water filter and other things I noticed an air duct. Turns out my propane heater pushes air right to the spot where the water pump is located. By Saturday it is expected to be back in the high 70s or low 80s. Keep warm!!!