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    Posted: 25 May 2012 at 3:20pm
Originally posted by furpod

Barn. Or a cover. Many northern podders on here, should hear from them shortly.. most have dug out by now..

If properly winterized, I don't *think* any of the pieces couldn't handle those temps. If you have 120vavailable, you could leave a small space heater on, set low. We do that here.. just in case I/we need/want to either hide out or driveway camp.. or so if we use the camper as a guest room, it is already near to comfortable.


furpod, when we lived in Wisconsin, where it want -30 and beyond, a small lightbulb under the car's hood kept things warm enough to help get it started.  I have prepared a place on my 5 acres where I park the pod and can attack it to power.  So a small light to keep the chill off, along with a cover should work. 

Thanks for another good suggestion.  It'll be interesting to see what some of the more hardy northerners think of this idea.
Mike, Linda & Doxies
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Tow Vehicles: 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 (Linda's) and a 2003 Dodge Dakota (Mike's fishing truck)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 May 2012 at 11:02pm
Once you've winterized the water system and removed anything else that can freeze, you don't need to keep a heater in it.  Over the years our campers have experienced down to -10 F and were fine.
Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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