"We were out of town just for the weekend visiting our daughter in Chicago and her family and my husband had asked Jim, his brother, to check, make sure the furnace is running and see how the dog was we had left him in the garage," said Betty Ehlers. Strong blizzard winds pushed the door open, letting all kinds of snow make its way inside their house.
While Steve and Betty Ehlers drove back to their home near Newell, Iowa, Jim Ehlers and his wife spent the morning cleaning up the mess, which made its way into cupboards and closets, under doors and in drawers. When they got home, Jim and his wife had all the snow out of the house. The next day they saw the pictures.
Luckily, the damage done by mother nature is minimal, but they say it could have been worse. The couple says surprisingly they only have to replace a kitchen faucet and the flooring in the kitchen and hallway.
Did they have to replace the dog, too?? Left alone for a weekend in a frozen garage..??
ReplyDeleteThe garage probably ended up being the warmest room in the house. Hope it was heated.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that they have a furnace and that it was turned on...why didn't the snow melt ? The furnace would have been running non-stop.
ReplyDeleteWell, with the door blown wide open and a strong wind blowing cold air into the house, the furnace wouldn't be able to keep up.
ReplyDeleteThe article doesn't say what date this happened, but I checked the temperatures for Newell, Iowa, for the days just before the article was published, and the mean temperature for those days was -10 to -12C. So, yeah, it would be below freezing in there pretty quickly, even with the furnace going full-time.