Some of the snow was able to melt, but it was still pretty cold outside.
I was devastated when our gas heating system broke down during a terrible blizzard. I called the HVAC company for help, but they said it would take numerous days. They advised that if possible, we drive to a relative’s house and if not try to use a backup heating system and use lots of blankets to keep warm. Well, we didn’t have any portable heating systems, but we did have our fireplace that we didn’t use especially often. We had a reasonable stack of firewood ready to go, but I wasn’t sure if I could make all the wood last for a few days of continuous feeding into the fireplace. Still, it was the only thing we could do, it wasn’t like we had another place we could go. Even if we did want to go anywhere though, the roads were in bad shape for driving. The other miserable thing when I had the fireplace going was that I had to go out a bunch of times to shovel snow. I just prayed that the snow would let up. We struggled really badly the first night but I was glad when everything cleared up and the sun actually came out. Some of the snow was able to melt, but it was still pretty cold outside. We rationed the wood carefully to make it last as long as possible. We were finally down to our last few pieces of firewood when the HVAC professionals finally came out. I was so thankful when they called us to let us know they were on the way. I tell you what, in the future I’m going to make sure to have way more firewood just in case we need it.