It got REALLY cold at 3am !!

While camped at Balmorhea SP, we experienced an experience!  As mentioned in our prior blog, temps dropped from 80 to 45 in minutes...wind kicked up, sand blew -- blocking the setting sun.  Overnight forecast was for 15 degree.  We were prepared (again) for the cold, but we were "dry camping", no electrical hookup; operating off of our batteries.

Well.............. Morey woke up at 3am feeling very cold.  He got up and checked; inside temp was 52 and dropping!! With our furnace running almost continuously, sometime around  2am, our batteries must have died, therefore no blower for our furnace, NO HEAT.  Aha!  Morey started up the generator; but after 5 minutes it stopped.  What to do?  With Ruthie directing in the bitter cold in her nightgown, we moved our RV to an electrical site and plugged in, then started up our furnace.  Saved for the night!

And the generator-- turns out when Morey changed the oil a few days ago, he didnt run it to work in the new oil.  So when the generator started up in the night, oil was low and it shut down.  Fixed today and all is ok.