The second worst day in Trudy history


If you all have been keeping up with my instagram stories about the adventures of living in a 1968 camper in the dead of winter in North Carolina you will know i have been struggling with my water hose freezing. Well just when I thought I had kinda gotten a handle on things all hell broke loose.

My mom called me yesterday informing me that it was going to be 9 degrees on Sunday. I didn’t need to be reminded that this Florida girl was not even remotely close to being able to handle cold weather let alone 9 degrees. I did everything I thought I had too— i preemptively washed all my dishes, covered up my spigot, made sure my cabinet doors were open, left a trickle of water running, got out an extra blanket and pointed the heater right at my face.

Woke up to frozen windows and door like a scene straight out of The Day After Tomorrow. I was so productive all day, did all kinds of work and finished everything on my to-do list. I got up to make a protein shake shortly after noon only to realize my sink wasn’t draining.

Yeah, I should have thought, wow thats weird lets turn the water off but of course I didn’t. I shut that trickle of water off but since the temperature was still well below freezing I went into the bathroom to turn that faucet on a little bit. I stuck a fork down the drain to make sure it was clear and set off the the grocery store after adding Drain-O to my list.

Because I freaking suck at grocery shopping, it took me an hour and a half to buy 9 things and by the time I got home, you guessed it, the freaking bathroom had flooded. It wasn’t a clogged drain, no it was the fact that all the pipes were mother effing frozen.

So what do I do? Do I just turn it off, and wait for it to thaw? No, I start spooning the water into the toilet.

Did you know you were supposed to drain all holding tanks before it freezes outside? No? Me either.

I filled the toilet up with water to empty it into the tank, thinking it will just go into the shit pipe and everything will be ok. WRONG. MY FREAKING HOLDING TANK WAS FROZEN SOLID AND HAS SPILT. Thats right, broken. My black water holding tank is now broken and leaking shit water out all over my parking spot.

I go outside to find that all the pipes are frozen solid, can’t even move them or open the valve to drain the black water tank. After and hour of pouring hot water over the pipes I un-froze the shit pipe and nothing else. The only thing I can do is sit and wait for warmer weather to come and thaw everything out.

Now, I’m siting here in my camper, late for work, drinking wine right tout of the bottle, covered in shit water in a camper that smells less that desirable. Happy Monday.

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