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Due to several unforeseen incidents, I came home from 2nd shift last night to a cold house here in Indiana. The therrmastat was reading around 40 degrees! Come to find out that about 2600 local residents were without power, which means for us country folk no heat, no running water, no nothing. My husband was home when it happened, and the power had been off for about 3 hours when I got home.
We went to bed bundled up in our clothes and winter coats with ski caps on to keep our body heat from escaping under the covers until about 2:30 am before throwing in the towel and heading for the Salvation Army emergency shelter in town. By then, the temps in our house were reading around 36 to 38 degrees.
Came home about 5:30 am after the power came back on, and the furnace fan hasn't been off yet. It got down to around minus 17 last night, and the predicted high for today is 0.
I did manage to get 4 hours sleep once we got home this morning. Hopefully, I can make it through work, today without falling asleep. LOL I'll be going in for my shift at 3:00 pm. Sure feels strange not to be out of my clothes for almost 24 hours straight... very strange indeed.
It only now about up to the temp we usually keep the house.
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I'm sorry to hear about last night, Crystal. I live in a rural area as well, and no power means no water. Fortunately, I have a gas fireplace in case we ever go without heat for a long time. You should consider investing in one of those or even a wood stove, which would be considerably less expensive.
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Sorry to hear about that. I live on a mountain, so no power, no water, and we have horses. So, many a time I have trudged through 3 feet of snow to break ice in the little spring to haul water back. It never fails, by the time i get back the powers on.
On a side note, we had only a woodstove when my wife and I married, no heat upstairs. One morning it was -8 outside, the insdie was 30, we could see our breath. My in-laws didnt want to snowmobile becuase it was too cold outside, My wife and I laughed because we finally got to wear our snowsuits for what they were intended, not watching tv. We still have photos of the 2 dogs, 2 cats and us huddled by the woodstove in the basement, watching tv on a 12 inch tv, with only 1 station(yes, I still channel surfed(no it didnt even have a remote)). Good times. Young and in love. The love still lasts, the dogs have passed, the cats still steal the covers, but now I don't mind so much, we got heat the next year.
Sorry about power loss, but you'll get through it, and I second the vote, for an alternative source of hear, a woodstove is great, you can cook on it as well.
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Wow, that sounds cold. I wish it would cool down a little here, but maybe not that cold. It was a sin, but I actually turned on our air conditioning today because it was so hot when I got home from the park today. Our worst time not to have power is in the middle of summer. It happened once and we took a shower in our pajamas and then laid in bed with the fan on high. It didn't help much. Good luck with the cold and don't mind me if I get a little envious sometimes.
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Right now here in sunny Florida, it's a chilly fifty-five Fahrenheit. I know that doesn't match what is is further north, but this is about the coldest it regularly gets, and then only for a week or so in the winter.
'tweren't my idea to live in Florida. I was hijacked by my parents.
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