We don’t get a lot of cold weather in this part of the country.
We are more prone to hurricanes and heat waves, and never once in my life have I seen snow on the ground.
When we do get a cold snap, usually it comes out of nowhere. This happened a few weeks ago. One afternoon it was a comfy 75 degrees outside, and later that night the temps plummeted to below freezing! I lost most of the plants in my yard from the cold, but there was a bigger problem I had to deal with. The central heating system would not turn on. I have no clue when it broke, because it had been six or seven months since the last time I needed the heater. Now that I was in dire need of the heater, it would not respond. The weather report said that the cold snap would last for three or four days, and then temps would get back to normal. I called my usual HVAC service provider, but this cold snap had them overbooked, and they couldn’t help me until the following week. Thank goodness for Walmart, because I was able to buy an excellent space heater for a fraction of the cost I would have paid for repairs. The math was pretty simple, and I decided it wasn’t worth the investment to get the central heating system fixed when I wouldn’t need it for several more months. The space heater only heats up one room at a time, but I live alone so what more do I need?