Plug or unplug that is the question

JRscooby wrote:
I don't know about where you camp, but I can't see why take a risk leaving trailer hooked to TV overnight. In most CGs I have used there is a strong building somewhere that works as a storm shelter. While I can walk there with no issue, it does not need to be very far away for it not to be faster to get wife and self in TV, drive there, out of vehicle and in the shelter. TV tied to trailer? Take much longer.
If you are worried about the time to hook back up, for many a lot of that time is spotting TV. 5th wheel, if you only move a few inches, just keep hands off the wheel you will be fine. Ball coupler? Put a chock tight behind rear TV tire, keep hands off wheel.

Along those same lines, I always unhitch no matter what. A lot of our camping is off-road riding, and we've had to make plenty of unscheduled trips to go rescue someone or take somebody to the local hospital. It's one of my few superstitions: If I don't unhitch, I'll probably need to leave in a hurry and I'll regret that I'm still hitched up.

As for the original question though, I'd compare the risks of disconnecting vs. staying connected.

I can't think of any risk in disconnecting, except for maybe forgetting to reconnect when you leave, but you'll figure that out pretty quickly when you check your mirrors and don't see your running lights on.

Years ago before we had solar, we had a trip or two where we ran the batteries down too low to run the tongue jack or crank up the gen. It was a drag to have to manually crank up the jack before I could turn the truck around and jump start the gen.