My mom woke myself and others out of a sound sleep last week.
She told myself and others it was frosty in the house, & she needed to have her furnace repaired.
I never turned my mom down when she had an emergency, & going without heat is an emergency. Dad had a lot of health concerns, & I distraught about letting them go without Heating & A/C for very long. I got my wife up, & told her I was going to my parent’s apartment to repair their furnace. She was up & dressed before I was. She wanted to make sure they were okay, & she was going with me. When all of us got to the house, every light was on, & mom was standing at the door waiting for me. When I got inside, it was freezing. She had her coat on over her robe & dad was sleeping on the sofa with a space gas furnace near him. After fifteen minutes, I knew the furnace could not be repaired. The people I was with and I needed a new furnace for the house. My wife was already packing their clothing to take with us & they would stay in the spare room until I could update their furnace. The people I was with and I knew this could lead to frozen pipes, so I wrapped the pipes with heat tape & all of us headed out. It took nearly 2 weeks to get a furnace & have it installed. I would stop every evening after toil to make sure everything was okay & make sure the pipes were okay, but by the time mom & dad went home, the furnace was installed, & the apartment was more comfortable than it had been in a couple of years.