The power went out in the middle of the night.
Of course, that means that the heating system stopped working too.
The forced air central heating system works on electricity, of course. This wouldn’t be a large concern except for the fact that it is 15 degrees outside and there is a raging blizzard. I don’t want my pipes to freeze. Thankfully, my property has a backup heat source. My buddy and I have a fireplace. My buddy and I don’t use the fireplace often. Mostly because I am uneasy with all of that smoke going into the air. My buddy and I do, however, use the fireplace on holidays and a few other times a year. I am cheerful we do because that means we keep the fireplace well inspected! You can’t just light up a fireplace that hasn’t been used in years. The chimney could be jammed and you will die of a lack of oxygen. Anyway, every year we hire our Heating, Ventilation, and A/C contractor to come out and service our Heating, Ventilation, and A/C system and our fireplace. They make sure everything is in wonderful working order for the year ahead. So, when the power went out, and with it the forced air heater, we simply started the fireplace up. That kept the dwelling nice and boiling and comfortable for the next few days before the electricity was fixed. My buddy and I were fortunate to have the fireplace too. Some of our neighbor’s pipes burst because of the freezing because they didn’t have a fireplace. So they had to go without running water as well as no electricity. Then they had to spend my savings an extravagant service bill to fix their pipes. Meanwhile, our fireplace kept anything like that happening over at our house.