Hi Koffee, hope you got your furnace fixed. If it has to be broken, it's good that it happened when it wasn't that nasty weather that just passed, or in the nasty freezing stuff coming up again after Wed.

Be careful with your electric heaters and check the plug where it goes into the wall occasionally, k? They pull a lot of electricity.

A good bedtime trick if you have some cast iron cookware is to heat it either on top of your stove or in the oven, wrap it in a towel and put it at the foot of the bed. Guess some people might get all fancy and use electric blankets, but in case you don't have, or want one....LOL.

If you're concerned about frozen pipes with electricity going out, Pex pipes seem to do well. They expand and contract so even if they did freeze, they wouldn't break like copper ones. Another good thing is that a separate pipe goes to each thing using water, so if something did happen to one, you'd have a good chance of having the others still work.

Hoping your furnace is humming away and you're all snug now.