Each year our winters get colder and more drastic with the snow storms. It’s frightening getting caught in a blizzard while you’re driving your car down icy roads. Even with Winter time 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 abruptly gets covered by new snow. They’re found frozen to death a morning 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 toil from lake lake house and get most of our groceries and store items delivered to our house. Instead, I focus on making sure I have a means to stay warm within our 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 air duct that runs underneath the floors in our house, which is the ceiling inside the basement. My a/c air duct is inside our 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 lake lake house through water channels, sometimes to individual gas heating systems inside each room upstairs.