Unbareably Cold
Tonight Cloudy Lo 19°F | Sunday Slight Chc Snow Hi 36°F | Sunday Night  Chance Snow Lo 21°F | M.L.King Day Slight Chc Snow Hi 32°F | Monday Night  Mostly Cloudy Lo 16°F | Tuesday Slight Chc Snow Hi 29°F | Tuesday Night Mostly Cloudy Lo 17°F | Wednesday Mostly Sunny Hi 36°F | Wednesday Night  Partly Cloudy Lo 17°F |
I don't know what the weather is like where you live, but here in Virginia -25 is not something we hear very often...or at all.
But despite our history records, that's how low the wind chill got last night.
Our poor central heat couldn't keep up. Garren and I woke up several times last night to check on things. Around 2am Garren turned on the emergency heat since the temperature inside had dropped to around 65 degrees. At 4 am we pulled out extra covers and made sure Gracie was layered up as well as ourselves. At 6:45 am the emergency heat still could not compete and we were resting rather chillingly at 61 degrees. That's when Garren opened the oven and turned it on to 450.
The oven is the only thing that has kept the temperature inside our home nearing 70 today. Without the windchill last night the temperature was down to 2 degrees. It warmed up to 14 around noon today, and I believe the highest we got was 25 degrees.
We knew a cold front was coming through, and while it was quite the inconvience (and worry for parents of one and a half), we not only survived, we made do quite well. We live in an apartment complex surrounded (and insulated) by 9 other homes. I can only imagine how cold it got for others last night. And, to think of all of those people who don't have central air, or rely on fireplaces or wooden stoves.
I feel very lucky, and very blessed this evening. And, I am praying that those families will make it through another miserably cold night tonight.
As for us, we may all share the big mommy and daddy bed tonight. We might get more sleep, especially since most of the night we spent our sleepless hours worrying about our precious princesses and checking to make sure she was warm every five minutes.
Frigid here too! We are wishing so badly that we had a big wood stove in the basement. My parents' house is so toasty warm because they heat with wood.
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