A neighbor told me that her sister in Michigan is expecting her heating bill to be over $600.00 for Feb. That’s criminal.
It gets cold here in central Illinois too but my highest bill ever was $265. That's electric and N.G. combined. My 4 bdrm. house is very well insulated and I have a 2 year old furnace and A.C. Since getting the new units, my highest bill has been about $230
Yep, $600 is criminal, unless your neighbor's sister has a huge house.
We’re expecting about -15 tonight in Michigan.
Still not nearly as bad as last winter.
A few years back I saw a projection of where the US population would be concentrated, and most big northern cities were expected to drop from the “big city” list. If this works out this way, I’d expect it to be caused by a combination of 1) those high heating bills, 2) the inability to do business X number of days due to winter weather, and 3) the fact that many of the replacement Americans are completely unaccustomed to severe cold.
Here in NJ many of our replacement Americans are Latino and Asian; few of them are accustomed to this.