Posted by Ultradog MN on January 06, 2014 at 16:32:54 from (174.20.229.160):
Jay in NY's post about the frozen squash reminded me of a night when I was living up in Anchorage in the mid 80s. I had an old cabover camper that I had parked on the back of an old truck and lived in that for 2 1/2 years in a trailer park there. It had a propane furnace and fridge which both worked very well. I kept it heated with a 100 lb propane tank and a 20 lb as a spare. To back that up I had an electric milkhouse heater which I never used but it was there if I ran out of propane in the middle of the night. So one night it was about 30° below. About 1:00 AM I woke up because it was getting cold in the camper. Furnace was out. So I dressed and went to change over to the 20 lb tank. Arrg, it was gone. So I went back in and went to turn on the electric heater. HUH? It was gone too! So I dressed up in my Carharts, crawled into a big sleeping bag and covered that up with blankets. Slept like a baby but boy was it tough to crawl out in the morning. Later that day I ran into my land lord and I asked him WTH happened to my tank and electric heater. He said, very casually, "Oh. I took them to try to thaw out the waterlines to one of the trailer houses." I told him how my furnace went out and the cold ordeal I went through. He said nothing. So I told him that everything in the camper had frozen solid and all may cabbage and potatos were ruined and I was pretty mad about it. He just kind of chuckled and said; "Well if you were a True Alaskan you would have known to bring your potatos and cabbage to bed with you and they wouldn't have frozen." And that was the end of it.
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