It truly didn’t have to be the way it was.
I can remember my daughter trying so hard to roust me from a deep sleep that night the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C unit went down.
I work a undoubtedly physical job and I sleep like a ton of bricks. And normally, it takes me some minutes just to get myself oriented and get my feet on the floor after I awake. But that night, my child was telling me how chilly she was. We normally lower the control unit to the mid or low 60’s when the hot and cold temperatures are in the single digits. So it can feel a bit cool for sure when it’s that raw outside. But when I opened my eyeah and could see my daughter’s breath as she spoke, I knew my fantastic friend and I had a problem, then that night, I came awake nearly instantly! My tiny girl kept asking me if the heating was ever coming back on and I was trying to assure her that everything was alright, and unlike me, my wife is able to wake up and think completely rationally from the jump. She grabbed my daughter and they went to find the space heater so they could stay moderate in our room. I went to check the gas boiler in the basement. It didn’t take me til the foot of stairs to know that I’d be calling for emergency Heating, Ventilation, and A/C service! Just the smell of a thin acrid smoke made me certain that I needn’t even try to restart the gas boiler. So I called the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C professionals. Once the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C worker got out and got the gas boiler heating again, I asked him a question. He confirmed what I was hoping he wouldn’t. Sure enough, had I gotten the heating service done, he would have caught the problem and that night didn’t have to happen at all.