While Joe may be melting/melted inside his house no one is melting outside in North Dakota today.
If you missed Timmothy's cartoon strip this week a snowman snuck into his house, melted, and then his snowmom came in to rescue her snowman boy and messed with Joe's thermostat so Joe could experience melting.
Okay, that's all very far fetched but it is a comic strip.
What is real in North Dakota is the importance of a well maintained heating system.
The super cold snap we just entered will have daytime high temps of 10 below and lower. That is actual air temp. Add in the wind and we are looking ar lows as low as 60 degrees below zero.
If your heating system fails in this cold snap you need to get on the phone immediately with a heating specialist. Even the most well built home will lose its heat in just a few hours even if you don't open a door to get to your car.
What can you do?
Call for help (expect it sometime with-in 24 hours).
Keep the house buttoned up.
If you have little portable electric heaters use them. I keep 3 or four around just for this reason.
You can use your oven/stove for emergency heat but this is very dangerous with children in the home.
Make every faucet in the home drip so pipes do not freeze up. Frozen pipes burst and are VERY costly to repair, plus you end up with water damage.
DO NOT
Do not under ANY circumstances start a fire unless you have a fireplace. You can NOT start a fire on a cement basement floor, in a sink, or in a bathtub. NO fire is safe inside a home.
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