It was raining so hard that I could barely see out my car windows.
I ran ten feet from my car to my house, and the rain soaked clear through. I knew I needed to get warm or I would just keep shivering, so I stood over the air vent. My husband saw how wet and cold I was, so he started the fireplace. He gave it a quick shot of heat to try warming me up. He then handed me my heavy robe and told me to undress in front of the fireplace. I wanted to know why he started the fireplace instead of turning up the thermostat, and all I heard was that it didn’t work. The thermostat was new, and I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. He said it wasn’t the thermostat that was broken, but the furnace. When he got home from work, he tried turning up the thermostat, but nothing happened. He even checked the batteries, but they were okay. He had already called the HVAC company and asked them to send an HVAC technician to the house. The rain was supposed to change over to snow, and we would have more than a foot of snow by midnight. We didn’t want to be without a furnace with that kind of wind and frigid temperatures. Once I got warmed by the fireplace, he put my clothing in the washer and told me to get a shower. He had already pulled out the space heater and the bathroom would be warm. He wanted to call the HVAC company to make sure the HVAC technician was on the way.