I've not had the same level of bad luck that you've had Angie, but I can commiserate to an extent.
I heat primarily with wood. I have propane to run my water heater and stove, but try to only use the furnace as a backup. With the brutal cold that we've had I've gotten used to it getting pretty chilly inside overnight, so the sub-zero night that the kitchen door blew open while I was sleeping went unnoticed a bit too long. I wound up with the pipes freezing and bursting under the sink, which was bad enough, but it's a second floor kitchen. Downstairs I had drywall and insulation falling from the ceiling, soaked carpeting, etc... No fun!
On top of that, we've had tons of snow. So much that many are running out of places to put it all. It's been so cold that the battery in my loader tractor froze solid. I now keep it in the house, and only take it out to dig my way to the road, then bring it back in. The amount of snow has also made it nearly impossible to get into the woods to cut more wood. It started snowing again last night and it hasn't stopped.
I have two 100gal stock tanks to water my horses. One is inside the barn and one is outside. The outside tank is now a 100gal ice cube, and the inside tank is about half capacity because of ice.
Winter is a slow time of year for me business-wise normally. I have to go to my client's barns to work, and between the snow and the cold I've had to postpone more work this year than I have in 20yrs, making the already tight budget even tighter.
But.....it could always be worse. Neither the dog, horses, or I have had any health/medical emergencies, so I'll remain optimistic that we'll come out of it all okay.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you're finally back in your house, and getting things sorted out so some normality will return in time. In another few months we'll all be back out swinging, and this will all just be a memory of hard times that we've survived.
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