Winter has arrived in Mission!!

I know that winter arrived down here every year, however, in the four years that we have been down here, it has never been this cold. The news said that is has not been this cold in the valley in the last 20 years. Look at the before and after pictures of my poor pansies.


As you can tell, the bed sheet was not long enough to cover them all. We will see if they will come back. Right now they are covered with ice.

The whole mess started on Wednesday when the weather report was calling for a hard freeze warning, which means it will be below freezing for an extended time over night. The lowest we measured was 28 degrees. We decided to to fill up the fresh water tank in the rig and unhook the water hose, just in case. Next came an email from the developer asking us to cover any exposed pipes, so that they will not burst. At that time I decided to cover up my panties as best I could.



By last night the weather report called for freezing rain and maybe some snow. They actually closed two highways around here, since the roads were icing up. This is what we woke up to this morning.


As you can see the sun is out and the ice should be melting fairly quickly. We have one more night of temperatures below freezing and then we will be able to hook up the water again, so I can do laundry, which is starting to pile up. This is our third day of sitting in the rig and I can't wait for the weather to get just a little bit warmer, so we can go outside again.