Baby It's cold INside

What happens when the longest cold spell in 30 years hits Phoenix, with 3 nights of freezing temperatures in a row? Simple economics: demand exceeds supply and 6 little Scoresby plus 15,000 of our neighbors lose their natural gas. NICE! Since we have a gas stove and dryer we were crippled yesterday...no showers, doing laundry, cooking dinner not to mention heat. We noticed about 10 a.m. that the heat was on but cold air was blowing out. After some phone calls to neighbors and Southwest Gas, we learned about the outage and braced ourselves for a long night. A fleet of trucks were out and about all day hooking people back up and re-lighting pilot lights and we heard they were working until midnight. But with over 4900 homes to go to, we didn't expect anything soon. We bunkered down in the master bedroom last night (after showering and drying laundry at a neighbor's house) with a space heater, kids on the floor, to get through last night and the baby had one in her room with her. To get ready for school I put on my coat to fix cocoa and toast for Con and Claire and brought it back up to them in the bedroom. They dressed in there and we came down when it was time to go. Luckily our new best bud the Southwest Man came by around 11:30 this morning. The heat is back on! and we have a new appreciation for modern conveniences.