Cold winter night

I was just going to be a "good wife" and do the dishes after I had my dinner. I swear, I didn't mean to cause trouble. Unfortunately, trouble came to me. There was no hot water. So, being a pretty handy person, I figured "it's cold downstairs and most of our hot water pipes aren't insulated - just let the water run." Three minutes later, no hot water, and panic started to set in.

I went downstairs to notice that it was quite chilly - 41 degrees in fact. (Panic rising.) I was the one that managed to reset the furnaces this fall so that we had heat, so I proceeded to do the procedure again to our forced air furnace. No dice. That's when I called our contractor. No heat on the 1st floor when we're expecting chilly weather and about 6" of snow in the next 24 hours is not a good combination. And a hot shower in the morning would be nice.

The contractor came back over, and has thus far detected that almost every circuit breaker is tripping/powering down the furnace - a fact that didn't used to be true. That and now we can't start up the dryer - something I did just yesterday. Somehow with all of the demolition, the electrical got Really Screwed Up. The problem is diligently being worked on at the moment. Cross your fingers for a hot shower in the morning!!

-Becky the popsicle

PS. We do have heat upstairs, so we won't freeze tonight... just maybe the pipes downstairs.