I went camping in a heat dome, and these five gadgets saved my vacation

This EcoFlow portable powerfulness presumption was a immense assistance successful making definite my household didn’t breakdown during sweltering temps successful the Tennessee mountains. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

I precocious returned from a household camping travel to Cades Cove successful the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I unrecorded successful South Carolina, truthful successful mid-July, a travel to the mountains is usually an fantabulous mode to question retired cooler temperatures. Not this year.

Thanks to this summer's heat dome, I was facing a week of feels-like temperatures upwards of 100 degrees - and nary aerial conditioning. I went into readying mode.

We were camping successful our Rockwood Mini Lite RV, which meant we had a fridge, entree to powerfulness outlets, and water. But the campground didn't person electrical oregon h2o hookups, truthful we needed our ain powerfulness and immoderate portable cooling.

Normally, y …

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