When the Furnace Dies and It's Twenty degrees Below Zero
This story is about 10 years old. It’s from the last time my furnace broke down. My new furnace started glitching last week. It’s more or less fixed, but they told me they have to come back one more time to adjust a few things. Every now and then in Wisconsin, you wake up because your house is 50 degrees. Those days are always exhausting.The smell alerted me to the problem.I’ve had this house for 9 years, and every winter I’ve worried that the furnace would finally succumb to a long-overdue death.My house is over a hundred years old. There is Civil War era plumbing in the basement and every…
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