{"id":5664,"date":"2022-01-07T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:33:57","slug":"wind-chill-warning-and-our-furnace-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wind-chill-warning-and-our-furnace-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Chill Warning, and Our Furnace is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"National<\/a><\/p>\n

\"National<\/a>Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The weather station at Sauk Centre’s municipal airport has been offline for a few days.<\/p>\n

In places like, say, New York City or Seattle, I suspect this would be a “crisis.”<\/p>\n

Around here, it’s January.<\/p>\n

A bit more seriously, this household’s furnace stopped working overnight.<\/p>\n

When I woke up this morning \u2014 that’s always<\/strong> a good thing \u2014 I noticed that someone had thrown an extra blanket over me, and that the room was cooler than usual.<\/p>\n

The kitchen was chilly, too, and an electric space heater was valiantly glowing. My son confirmed my suspicion, that our furnace was offline.<\/p>\n

I didn’t ask if someone had called repair services. Our equipment documentation binder was open to the furnace pocket. That question’s answer was obvious.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Later Friday Morning<\/h4>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n

The temperature at my desk was around 58\u00b0 Fahrenheit. I gather that other rooms were a little cooler, maybe 55\u00b0 or so. That’s the ground floor. I figure upstairs it would be significantly cooler.<\/p>\n

Not bad, considering that someone first noticed the furnace issue around 1:00 a.m. \u2014 this old converted American Foursquare1<\/a><\/sup> farmhouse retains heat rather well.<\/p>\n

It’s now 10:35 a.m. and a service tech has been here. I don’t know what the problem was, but the furnace is working again and it’s now around 66\u00b0 here at my desk. My wife moved a space heater to the north room, where I am, bless her.<\/p>\n

Looks like I won’t be alternating between defrosting my fingers and writing today, after all.<\/p>\n

The furnace isn’t exactly fixed. Seems that there’s a sticky valve that needs replacing.<\/p>\n

The system is working, for the moment, and may continue doing so until a replacement part comes in. Which will, I trust, be in a few days.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, our van’s steering went kaput yesterday and I haven’t heard when that’ll get taken care of.<\/p>\n

More, and less, of the same:<\/p>\n