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On 3/4/2019 at 5:59 AM, rbertalotto said:

I am not in a park. I'm on my way back to New England stopping in rest areas. I drained the hot water tank. I believe the hose from the fresh water tank to the pump is frozen under the trailer. none of the hoses in the interior of the trailer are anywhere near Frozen as I had the heater on and even though I am driving now the temperature is in the forties. Instead of heading north east. I'm now headed Southeast. On the weather map it looks like it should get above freezing in San Antonio Texas. Let's hope nothing breaks in the next few hours until I get down there.

When we stayed in Texas our water hose from the camper to the faucet froze. What we did was to take the hose off and brought it into the camper and put it in the shower. In the morning we took it out and hooked it back up. Otherwise we never had any problem with the plumbing in the camper being frozen. We also keep a spare hose just in case it did freeze we had a backup. 

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On 3/4/2019 at 8:43 PM, jblo said:

Just finished 3 1/2 weeks in Denver, then headed south.  Couple good days, then the cold caught up with us.  Using a heated hose + a heat tape on the drain lines/sewer hose has kept us in operation.  Couple of days, the spigot froze and we had to use blow dryer to thaw it out.  Now in Weatherford, TX, area--spigot froze last night but got thru that.  Now have everything 'winterized' and see how it works at 19-20d tonight.

Sounds like you are near the top of the learning curve. I'm glad nothing burst. The way to tell if you have a leak is leave your water pump turned on, do not use any water for a hour. If the pump runs for a few seconds at a time, that means there may be a tiny leak somewhere.

 

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