For a solid week now, we have had freezing cold weather.
Everyone knows I live in the south, and to have freezing cold weather is unusual for us, even in the winter time.
That does not mean that it never happens, however. Occasionally, there is the need to turn off the air conditioning and switch the thermostat button over to the heating section. It can’t get much easier than that, quite frankly. Can it? We don’t have blizzards in the winter. Every once in a blue moon we will get a snow flurry. That happens from time to time, and you will find people who are able to catch it with their phone video and post it on social media. Other than that, though, for the most part, cold weather really causes people around here to be flustered. We have a lot of young adults who are out of the home for the first time, being a college town and all, and they rarely know what to do when this cold weather strikes. They do not realize they should go outside and turn on the outdoor faucets to a slow drip so that they don’t freeze and break. Anyway, most of them do not even know about heating systems. If it is a simple heating and cooling system, they can handle it, but if it is more complicated, such as a heat pump or a furnace that has a pilot light that needs to be lit, they have no idea what to do.I will admit that this year I have run the heating system more than any other year. I turned my thermostat setting up to 70 degrees and have pretty much left it there.