Chapter 1, My Furnace Story by Chrys Withrow, We have lovely weather today. I was able to take the dog for a good long walk. It was beautiful, but man last weekend while we had that horrible storm, we didn't realize till Monday morning that our furnace had gone out. It was not pleasant. The furnace would turn on and the little lights would go and we could see the flames and if you wanted to stand six inches away from the furnace, you'd have a nice warm--not real warm, only the part that was facing the furnace and the rest of your body was frickin cold.