Cold And Wet

But now just cold.

I discovered on Tuesday that a small water tube to my humidifier burst, flooding out my basement just enough to make things miserable.  I've learned a long time ago never to put valuables or anything else you don't want wet in the basement so most of it wasn't a loss.  The tube probably burst in the morning and I didn't discover it until around 2:30 pm.

I spend all afternoon cleaning up and go to turn on the heat.  Nothing.  A few hours later, nothing.  The gas guy comes in the next morning and painfully tells me that the circuit board is fried due to the water and I won't have heat until Friday.

So now I'm just cold.

I do have a giant heater, kerosene? out in the garage.  You know, that LDS three day emergency kit thing, but I don't think I can put it on carpet and truthfully I'm scared too anyway.  I have a small heater sitting next to me right now so we aren't freezing.  Just cold and glad I have a lot of quilts to use.

I'm just grateful the Service Guard plan we purchase every month covers everything and it wasn't a water pipe.  Yeah, it's expensive, but sure beats having to come up with the cash to fix this.

Now I just hope it's the circuit board and I don't need a whole new heater.  It's too cold to quilt right now so I'll post when I can.

edited:

Took out the kerosene heater.  No way will that work in my house as the rooms are too small and the caution page was filled up completely.  I know my FIL meant well when he was convinced the world was ending (long story) and bought us the heater but it's really meant for industrial usage.