One bad thing about cold weather is_____ [I Study Weather]

@cherokeepatti yup, the furnace is getting a workout...plus, I’m babysitting my water pipes to keep them from freezing 🥶

@Stereoguy Oklahoma has cheaper rates for natural gas since we have oil drilling here. But one winter the rates doubled and it was a hardship for many people. Some people burnt their homes down using alternative heating such as wood burning stoves or space heaters just to heat one room etc.

@Stereoguy seems like half the fires are now caused by homeless breaking into empty homes and starting fires in a metal trash can or something to stay warm

@Stereoguy they don’t own the buildings they break into so they have nothing invested. Likely they are druggies or alcoholics and don’t follow the rules to be sober to stay in a shelter so they are basically feral and just trying to survive, and probably have lost a lot of brain cells along the way. There was an old man who had a modest little home less than 2 miles from here and he lived by himself. He had to go into the hospital for a couple weeks and returned to his home to find it trashed and bedbugs crawling. It had been taken over by homeless men staying there. It was too damaged to stay in and his daughter had to come and get him and let him
Live with her. There is a homeless shelter with a meal kitchen just a few blocks down the street. Not everyone who eats at the kitchen qualifies for the shelter.