How to stay warm with out electricity?
I check the long term weather forecast for our mid-April trip. The first stop at Great Sand Dunes NP in CO is in southern CO but at an elevation of about 8,000 feet. We can expect low temp at night ...
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2oldman wrote:
Many folks advocate turning off the furnace and sleeping in the freezing cold (and breathing cold air all night), but most people (in another thread) will gladly leave the gas water heater on all night. Sometimes humans make no sense to me.
Maybe those are different people but I agree that humans can be pretty irrational beings.
The water heater uses much less propane, plus it will add any waste heat to the interior anyway.
We turn them both on when we arrive and off when we leave but we're not full timers either so buying propane a few times a year is not a bother.
