Quote Originally Posted by GM View Post
Can't compete with snow stories and very fortunate to have been mostly missed by the extensive ice, flooding damage around metro Atlanta, but the unseasonably cold, wet weather we've had combined with the furnace dying on the first night of the first cold snap has meant me being cooped up in a ~12 x 14 ft room for a goodly portion of four months now. Some days it's been down to 32 deg in house and peaked at only 38 deg today. I did score a nice electric throw for only $25 on Black Friday though, so I can at least be relatively comfortable listening to music or watching a movie on TV in the living room.

Another bummer is that heating at ~120 V has proven more expensive for one room than heating my entire house with natural gas even at the 'Robber Baron' rates we've been hit with since the deregulation that was touted as a selling point of being cheaper long term. Yeah, right!

GM
Um, why not fix the furnace?
Mine is oil....died every year when it got cold. I learned how to fix/tweak it myself, and the last 2 years has run like a top. Installed in 1948.

NW (Oregon) has been warm and dry this winter, for the most part. We had one cold snap.....for a week, lows in the teens, single digits depending on the locale. One small snow.

I prefer cold over hot. Cold you can get warm. Hot, unless you have AC, is miserable. Hot days drag racing are unbearable....and hot days like that are probably what causes all the melted dribbling surrounds on our fav woofers!

Ron