Each year our winters get colder and more severe with the snow storms.
It’s scary getting caught in a blizzard while you’re driving your car down icy roads.
Even with winter tires on your car, there’s always a risk of sliding off the road into a snow drift and getting stuck. People die like this in snow storms because their car quickly gets covered by new snow. They’re found frozen to death a day or two later after the snow melts and exposes their car. This is in part why it’s so dangerous to drive during a heavy blizzard, even if you don’t end up in a collision with another car or a tree off the side of the road. But I don’t only worry about being on the road so much this year now that I work from home and get most of my groceries and store items delivered to my house. Instead, I focus on making sure I have a means to stay warm within my home. In case I lose electricity, I have a wood stove with a fair amount of wood in the garage. For primary heat, I’ve been using a gas-powered central furnace. It has separate ductwork that runs underneath the floors in my house, which is the ceiling inside the basement. My air conditioner ductwork is inside my attic, so both systems are central but separated. I am looking to buy a water heated setup instead, with a gas boiler. They supply heat throughout the home through water channels, sometimes to individual heaters inside each room upstairs.