What are you even talking about!?

I got this from my heat people, probably explains it:

Tonight into tomorrow, we all will experience temperatures and wind chills that our homes' heating systems are NOT designed for. The state building code dictates that a home heating system must be sized to a 5-degree night with a 10 mph wind. We will be experiencing a -10 degree night with 20 mph wind.   If your heating system is properly sized, it will NOT maintain temperature. The temperature WILL drop while the heating system is working at full capacity.    WHAT TO DO 1 Please raise the temperature in your home 2 to 4 degrees above your normal setting.  2 Take all programmable thermostats out of setback mode and set on a permanent HOLD.   3 If you have a furnace; replace the filter or remove it completely until the weather event is over.  4 Keep garage doors closed.  5 Limit opening exterior doors.  6 Make sure air vents and radiators are not blocked or obstructed.If you have a 90%+ furnace and boiler, you must keep the intake and exhaust clear of ice and snow. During these cold temperatures, ice can build up. A 90%+ furnace and boiler have 2 white PVC pipes; an exhaust pipe, and an intake pipe that are generally on the side or back of your home.  7 Refrain from using pellet stoves or supplemental heat forms if you have a water-based heating system. The pipes WILL freeze.If the temperature in your home is dropping and your radiators are HOT with boiler systems, or you have HOT air coming out of your vents with furnaces, DO NOT PANIC. Please make sure that your heating system continues to operate. 8 If the temperatures drop in your home, it will not be able to recover until temperatures rise and the wind chill diminishes. Heating systems can not overcome temperatures below 0 degrees. Set your thermostat on hold at 70 degrees or higher. 9 To help minimize temperature loss, you can boil water, make soup or stews, or bake something - it helps introduce humidity and warmer temperatures into your home.  10 Please check on neighbors and elderly residents during these extreme temperatures. Stay warm and safe this week.  11 The key is to NOT panic with falling temps inside your home if you have heat coming out of your registers. It is doing all it can. If it had feelings, it would be crying!  12 Stay safe and bring your pets inside!    13 Run a small stream of cold water in every faucet to help prevent a water freeze.   If your water stops flowing or a how water heating loop stops heating – Immediately shut off the water feed to your home!  This would indicate a frozen pipe that may have burst.  Once the thaw hits, the pipes could leak and cost tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage.

Got to -10º where I am... not the coldest I've ever seen it here, but close. Probably the lowest wind chill though, I don't remember any time when it was that cold with a howling wind.

I'll say, that joke was more horrible than when I went to the Uwe Boll movie double feature

I don't know what the temperature was but I remember schools being closed for a cold day sometime between 2000 and 2003.

Each day I hear something in the mayor and I like that man less than who vile hates the grinch he sounds like the absolute worst

yes i am about your age- i dont recall it ever been way way way below zero

Mt Washington also recorded lowest temps ever!

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Mines struggling too

Damn straight, hell I never let anyone forget my 3/5 birthday

You gonna do a punchline...or....?

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I am 41, soon to be 42 (this March), and I have. This used to be fairly common. You can even look up historical weather patterns and they record that these conditions once were not unusual.

Piggybacking here to say that even if the city water is working, there might be a frozen water loop in your house if it’s near an exterior wall. I woke up in the middle of the night to no heat, and this was the issue. Had to thaw my pipes with heaters/heated blankets to get the furnace to kick on again. ALSO, have you tried the reset switch on your burner? That can sometimes get it to kick back on.

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Growing up here in the Berkshires I remember February with temperatures in the teens with lots of snow on the ground. A couple of days we might have minus temperatures, but nothing like this. Looking out the window there are only patches of snow, mostly from piles left by the plows. I do wonder about my fruit trees, strawberries and other perennials, because they usually have a snow blanket to protect their roots.

My mother was a teachers aid in a special needs classroom. This was a long while ago, but it still holds true. Underpaid work, and it could be physically and emotionally brutal work. Plus, you don’t want just anyone in that role. You need someone who knows what they are doing. How do you get and keep that paying so low?

The people who do that work are saints. The pay rate would make them martyrs.

The low end of teacher pay is just over $50k

If your heating system is run off water, make sure your water is actually working. I am up in New Hampshire and our City pipes are frozen I think. Half the apartments here don’t have water and it’s not the pipes inside the buildings it’s the pipes under the ground. The people who have a hot water system to run their heat don’t have heat this morning

128 plumbing and heating

Callahan, Correct Temp, Royal Air, are my recommendations and are all good reputable companies.

Edit: you could also ask questions in r/hvacadvice for advice on your system.

This is common in North Dakota but not around here. Coldest I’ve seen in MA, for sure, and broke my weather station record low by 10 degrees (it’s been up for about 3 years)

I count mine in light years, makes me seem a lot younger than I am.