We have some weather coming Thu PM > Fri: snow and high winds. Suggestion: bump your thermostats up to a higher temp. Get house nice n’ toasy; that way if you experience a power outage, you have a buffer zone before the house gets cold.

Same for those with wifi accessible thermostats / gone for the season. And recommend having someone local check your empty Cape house after the storm passes, any time we have that kind of weather. Never know what can happen with high winds (predicting 70 mph).

ALSO: We don’t recommend turning thermostats down at night. Modern equipment works more efficiently if you maintain a steady temperature (set it and forget it), AND with the cold temps we’ve been having, it will take the house a long time to heat back up.  -deb

Based on what we saw yesterday, we want to make a recommendation – especially to people with wifi thermostats in seasonal homes:

If we have severe weather coming, we strongly recommend putting the temp up to 75 until the weather front has passed. This is to keep outside-wall pipes from freezing (if the house is not drained for the winter), and to give your house a temp boost in case you lost power there – and many people did end up losing power on the Cape last evening.

We got about a foot of snow here. Hard, driving winds during the storm.