Should I winterize today? Advice please
We just got back from the Keys last evening just after dark. Of course last night was the coldest night of the Winter so far. It was predicted down to 23 by the NWS and 27 by local news. I think the a...
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riven1950 wrote:
Thanks again for the input. I just finished winterizing. 40 degrees and 20mph north wind, so not fun, but nothing as bad as what many are dealing with. Just hard to get into it after leaving 80 degrees a couple of days ago :)
As advised, I will run a water hose to the TT to flush the black tank so I will not disturb the antifreeze.
Glad to hear you got it done and didn't play with Murphey's law any longer. I'm assuming you did not have any problems running the "pink", meaning .... you had no leaks are anything. So you did just fine! Glad there were no problems.
We were in Florida over Christmas week. I winterized at the end of October knowing we were going to Florida in December. In Georgia I unwinterized at a KOA and had a great weak in Florida. Lots of rain, but nice and warm.
We followed the weather on our phone app for one of the local Indianapolis television stations, and the temperatures stayed in the 60's all that week. I did not winterize on the return trip, decided to wait.
Heading home, we had nothing but rain, driving in rain, and once home had rain, rain, rain. I wanted to re-winterize once home, temps still pretty warm, and then they started predicting it getting below freezing.
I had no choice now (right before New Years) to winterize. Running the pink was no problem. That's done inside the camper anyway. But I did have to flush out the outside kitchen, and then I had to crawl under the camper to open the low point drains. My drive way is asphalt... 200 feet long, slightly sloped down hill. Do you know where all that water runs? Yep! Right under the camper. So I went swimming that day in ice water, crawling on my back to get those drains open. I accomplished the mission, dumped the pink from the low point drains, completely flushed, ready for real winter weather now. Felt good now. BUT ... frozen to the bone and sopping wet from head to foot. It was STILL raining, but now raining ice!
I made a made dash for the house when completely done, stripped down to my birth day suit and jumped in the hot tub! AHHHH..... so nice!
Life IS Good!
