
As the rest of the country was in a deep freeze, so was Texas. Friday night the temperature hit a low 17 degrees and didn't get above freezing on Saturday. Even though we "dripped" the faucets, all the water lines froze. Here is the intrepid maintenance crew with heat gun in hand on Saturday morning at 17 degrees trying to thaw the lines. It doesn't take much to see why the lines froze; red is hot and white are the cold water lines. These plastic pipes are on the floor of the attic, above our uninsulated porch; to the right of where my feet are begins the heated and insulated part of the house. There's just sheet rock between these pipes and the outdoors for 30 feet. At least our RV has an Arctic Pack that automatically heats the pipes and holding tanks!