We’ve had quite an experience between last night and today. Unfortunately, it does not involve wild animals.

Last night, the surge protector turned off our electricity twice due to low power. We decided to talk to the folks in the office who said it was because too much power pull (lots of space heaters running). That the power issue happens often in the summer due to all the AC units running. We decided to limit the number of heaters running last night to hopefully prevent power going off.

One great thing about the going to the office was seeing the snowman construction. By this afternoon the snowman had lost it’s eyes, nose, mount and hands. Poor Guy!

Starting around 6 am this morning, we the power went off 5 times. The first three times the power came back on after about 2 minutes for low power. The 4th time the circulate breaker was tripped and we had to turn it off and then back on. The 5th time at about 7 am was the deal breaker. Our trailer was about 58 degrees (was 63 before all the issues) with no power.

Back to the office we went. The office was full of people checking out and asking questions. We learned that the entire campground had no power, and the office was running on a generator. About 10 am, we went back to the office for update. Reason: If power was going to be out overnight, the trailer needed to be winterized (tonight’s low 25F). We were told the entire park was out of power. Much later we learned that only the east side of the park was out of power.

Because of the outage, we decided not to go to other areas and explore. Instead stay in the trailer and bundle up. This way we were here to turn on the heaters :-). John is wondering if Brenda likes him anymore since the blanket she made for him barely covers his chest. And the fact that I didn’t share the larger blanket :-).

The electricity came back on around 12:30 pm and the trailer was down to 53 degrees. We didn’t want to push our luck by turning on all the heaters at once. So, we turned on 2 (living room space heater and office heater that blows warm air into the underbelly of the trailer). We also wanted to verify the electricity wasn’t going to go out again and potentially damage our appliances. Everything was good and we turned on the fireplace. Yeah!!

The day turned out to be quite interesting. Mother nature could not decide if it should be winter, spring or summer. (no fall :-). We had tiny hail balls, then snow, then larger hail balls, then snow, sun and then more hail and snow, then sun. Finally, we ended the day with part sun. See pictures and videos below of the everchanging weather.

In case you’re interested, I also took videos. I narrated one of them.

On the trips back and forth to the office, we saw another family of snowmen including Timmy. By the end of the day, the snowmen were showing signs of weather stress.

Closer view of the snowmen.

The snowmen after the 3-season weather day. You will notice that Timmy is fading away.

Yesterday, I made Beef Lentil soup which was a good thing. The stove runs on propane and the vent from the 12 volt battery. So, we did have a decent lunch. For supper we had leftover Rotisserie chicken from Sams Club, stuffing and salad. So, we ate well even though we didn’t have electricity.

We started noticing the power supply to the camper started going low again around 6 pm. I think everyone was coming back from their day out, turning on trailer heaters and the park office laundry and shower were busy. All these activities were draining the power supply causing the decreased voltage.

Good to know about trailers and camping. Most larger trailers like ours takes 50 amps. This means two lines of 120 volts totaling 240 volts. It’ not uncommon to not be a little above or below 120 per line. Our surge protector will shut power off to the trailer when the power falls below 105 volts. This prevents damage to our electrical lines and anything plugged in. Right now, it is 9:30 pm and both lines are showing 111 which is low but usable. Around 9 pm the lines were showing 107 which is low…

Around 8 pm we decided to take showers. The site has passes to get 2 showers per day in the shower house located in the office building. These showers are tons better than a trailer shower. We left and thought nothing out of the ordinary would happen while were taking showers. We were sooo wrong.

We left the shower, and the ground was covered in 1 inch of snow and huge, beautiful flakes were coming down. Apparently, we might get up to 4 inches of snow tonight and 28 degrees as a low. I guess this is what you get when staying in high altitude :-). Still worth the experience.