Among the packing away I did last night was the stowing of the sewer hose, my reasoning being that there wouldn’t be too much water in the tanks and it was forecast to have heavy rain in the morning so I’d pack away in the dry. Well this morning when I woke up, I checked the weather for our destination, and it was still under a winter storm warning. The snow was due to start before midday and the overnight temperatures were forecast to drop to around -5°C. With temperatures that low I decided it was best to empty out the tanks.
There had been some very heavy rain overnight, but it had let up after breakfast so I headed out to reconnect the hose. Once showers were over with it was back outside to reel in the hoses and hydro cable and connect the trailer up to the truck. This is normally a simple operation, but this morning the safety lock on the hitch refused to engage, it took about 15 minutes to finally connect, and of course the rain started again!
We finally got underway around 9:45 after a change of clothes. There was no rush hour traffic to worry about on the I-10, just heavy rain. Once clear of the city we started a gentle climb all the way to destination which is just over 3000ft ASL. I’d always imagined Texas as been fairly flat; I was wrong.
Although it rained on and off, and there was a lot of spray from the road, the snow held off until we were about 30 minutes from our destination. The temperature dropped to -1°C but there was no sign of ice.
So here we are in central BC hoping for more snow and colder temps. Our high today was about -2, hard to believe you’re in Texas so much farther south than us with the same temperature.
Where are you? El Paso?
Hi Vicki, close, we’re overnighting in Fort Stockton midway between San Antonio and El Paso. We’ll be just north of El Paso over the State Line in New Mexico for a week, then up to Casa Grande Az to meet up with friends from BC and Kemptville.
Hope the lack of snow is not impeding the skiing.