Today, I woke up and realized I didn't start a fire last night. I live in Alaska and our winter nights can reach -30 below zero. My fish are dead, my plasma television won't turn on, and the cat has frostbite. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up on the coldest morning of the year to discover that the gas fireplace has run out of propane, and there is no water because the pipes are frozen. While trying to locate the frozen pipe, I forgot to let the dog out, and she peed on the carpet. FML
Today, I woke up and checked my fish tank. I thought the temperature was too low, so half asleep, I turned it up. Now all my fish are dead. FML
Today, my car heater finally died. I deliver pizzas. In Alaska. FML
Today, I woke up to a quite frigid room, which wasn't out of the ordinary since my building's heat is broken. But I realized that the extra cold I was feeling was due to the snow piled up on my bed. It had snowed 20 inches last night. My mom had apparently opened my window. FML
Today, my furnace and all of my heating systems broke down. A fridge is 3 degrees Celsius; it is now 2 degrees Celsius in my house. I would be warmer in my fridge. FML
Today, my refrigerator defrosted itself. FML
Today, thanks to a wonderful -40°F wind chill (I'm in the Midwest), I woke up this morning to a freezing cold house. I had to wear my shoes, a coat, and gloves. Indoors. For the whole morning and most of the afternoon. FML
Today, I took my car into the mechanic to have two tires and battery put in, all new. I later got a call saying they tried to start my car on the dead battery, which sparked and started a fire. It's gonna take two weeks to get the parts and it's minus 30 outside. FML
Today, during the worst flu we've ever had, my wife and I have to go out into thirty-below weather to get firewood because the furnace broke down. FML
Today, I woke up to a loud bang. Thinking someone had broken in, I grabbed my hunting knife and ran downstairs, only to find my TV on the floor, completely destroyed, and my cat casually sitting next to it without a care in the world. FML
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exileonmainst 16
Why would you need to start the fire? It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
JL_atl 4
Don't believe this one. - A house in Alaska with out central heating? - If it cooled that fast would all the pipes frozen be a bigger concern? - The house went well below freezing but it was not noticed during the night. Does this person sleep in an arctic rated sleeping bag? - Plasma TVs can be shipped at temperatures down to 0 or below. Did the house drop below that? - A house in Alaska would be well insulated. It would not drop over 40-60 degrees in 8 hours.
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exileonmainst 16
Why would you need to start the fire? It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
GlacierKitty 4
Best. Comment. Ever. :D
Noelletakumi 36
That started playing in my head when I read the first line.
ellyhan 11
If it was that cold, how did you manage to sleep through the night?
AzrielB 8
heated blankets maybe?
JL_atl 4
Don't believe this one. - A house in Alaska with out central heating? - If it cooled that fast would all the pipes frozen be a bigger concern? - The house went well below freezing but it was not noticed during the night. Does this person sleep in an arctic rated sleeping bag? - Plasma TVs can be shipped at temperatures down to 0 or below. Did the house drop below that? - A house in Alaska would be well insulated. It would not drop over 40-60 degrees in 8 hours.
ItchySasquatch 9
Not to mention them saying "it CAN drop to 30 below" which implies that it wasn't actually that cold, while simultaneously not being that cold to begin with lol
Warmonger_Smurf 29
I too was thinking it was fake. I live in Oregon, not nearly as cold as Alaska. And our fire doesn’t go out from late October to about April.
Tayler Marie Hoffman 5
a lot of houses here in Alaska survive mainly on a wood stove... and yes it can freeze that quickly. our power went out for an hour last week at 10 above and our house dropped in temperature drasticly.
coolrunnings1021 14
No mention of a house
acmariner99 25
Did we learn something?
julfunky 29
And you wonder why your father-in-law doesn’t like you. Don’t worry, I’m sure Rick can fix it.
PhantomCrevan 8
Sounds like you need to give up the ghost and buy some electric heaters and just keep them plugged in and on at all times. Also, I have to say that I'm very surprised that you are frostbite free if your cat- who has a coat that provides excellent natural insulation, and even more so if they are a long hair breed- has it. You may in fact want to double check that you DON'T have frostbite, because if you do and haven't noticed because of the lack of feeling, you could wind up with rotting flesh attached to the rest of you. Which would obviously be huge infection risk, and in fact a certainty if it goes unamputated for long enough. Also, why does your cat not sleep with you at night? Usually people can't keep the cat out of their bed.
mt21mt 15
Thimbs down because multiple electric heaters (on the same or an inadequate circuit) will possibly cause an electrical fire due to overloading. Most household circuits are completely tapped out at 1500w, which is what most electric heaters operate at. Please, if you have to use an electric heater, verify first that your electrical system can handle it, either by doing some research or consulting a professional. It is best to run the electric heater on a dedicated circuit, if possible. I would rather be a bit cold at night, rather than burning my house down while I am asleep. Be careful.
PenguinPal3017 19
They likely have an electric heater next to their bed.
jocamo 24
again if it got that cold, unless the car was shut out, it would be curled up with it's human especially with a heater
PhantomCrevan 8
Kind of figured that using only as many as your electrical system can handle was a given, considering that it doesn't take a genius to figure out that an electrical fire can make you just as dead as hypothermia.
davecross 11
That sucks. When it warms up let us know that you ok
neverfind 20
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
This is a hundred percent fake it I live in Alaska and the temp never went below -1 in the last week
GlacierKitty 4
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska, and can confirm it's been in the 20s and 30s the last few weeks. I call fake too, because there's no way the house would freeze so severely THAT fast, especially since it's been so warm
tonyfan00 38
It takes a special kind of talent to screw up that badly!