Winter Cold Moon
Of course, the only time you’re going to learn that your furnace has problems is in the winter. So in that sense it’s no surprise that I’m sitting up waiting on some repair technician who has to work late on Sunday night, Super Bowl Sunday night.
(what our furnace is not doing)
Our home has good insulation and we keep it cool to begin with, so we’re not suffering in any way; but, it wouldn’t be good for this to go on for a long while. It’s 10 degrees out now. At least it’s not last week when we were looking at -15.
You can just hear the Lakota and the Ojibwe, the pioneers and other early settlers chortle at any discomfort we have in homes of solid construction, with insulation of R-50 or better, central heating and cooling, indoor plumbing. Can you imagine living in a log cabin or a sod hut when the temperature hits 30 below or more? I can’t.
The really good news for us is that we have a reliable company that we’ve used for many years. Centerpoint energy dispatched a person when I called around 7 pm. Heat out is an emergency call here, but there are always multiple furnaces out. So, you get in line. Right now I’m supposed to hear before midnight. Maybe. It depends on how long it took to solve the person’s problem before us. And you want them to solve the problem.
So. You wait and are happy to have someone to wait for.
