Today, we're being treated to a bit of "light " snow, at 9°F. Total accumulation of said "light" snow through tomorrow is forecast at 6"-11". At least this one isn't accompanied by the "light" breeze that can and does also relocate mobile home parks in this part of the country. Of more immediate interest, to me at least, is the furnace. It's an outdoor unit, and the combustion air blower started making bearing self destruct noises late Friday afternoon (naturally). The part was put in the queue to be ordered Monday morning first thing. They're made right here in Wichita, but the replacement part has to come from Las Vegas - naturally. So sometime around 4:00-5:00 am Monday, the blower died. No blower, no fire. Oh boy! Yesterday was fairly pleasant, so I spent the day cutting up a bunch of firewood, and jury rigging a heat source. The furnace in the attached shop still works, so I hung a squirrel cage blower in a normally closed window into the utility room so it blew through and into the kitchen, where I stationed a big Vornado fan to blast it into the living room. Jacking the shop heat up to 76° and turning on the fans eventually got the house up to about 63° with some fine tuning of fan speeds and direction, which is about where it is now. Not bad, considering! The furnace part ought to be in tomorrow so if my fans keep working, we're fine. So far, this is way nicer than the week we spent without electricity in similar temperatures one winter after an ice storm took the power lines down all over the area. As I observed to my HVAC professional neighbor, "Furnaces never break down in July". At least not at this latitude. He agreed. Ron N
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