You could have turned down the thermostat 3-5 degrees. Turning it off is a bad idea. Do you have any unheated areas (garage? Basement?) Tell her to wrap up and go sit in that area for 2-3 hours.
For those of you who are worried about high electric (or gas, or water, whatever) bills, see if your utility offers a "budget plan" (or similar). Basically, they take the total of what you paid over the last 12 months, find the average, then that's the bill every month for the next 12. Our first year finishes in April, and we'll see how we did. We're currently $147 to the "good" with three months to go.
ETA: Programmable thermostats could help also.
The university that I attended/worked at in WA state had a similar rule. Rarely were classes canceled. I attended a community college in CA that also had this policy, but it applied to most 2-wheel drive vehicles, as there was no bus service. That campus was located up a steep hill that vehicles would slide down, so snow days were appreciated. And more often than not, it was ice that closed campus. Of course this was before internet and cell phones so you didn't know campus was closed until you made the drive to campus. A drive filled with black ice roads.My alma mater used the "if the buses can't get up the hill (due to ice)" then classes are cancelled. If they can it doesn't matter the conditions. I swear we like never had classes canceled even when finals occurred and there was a sheet of ice on campus that almost canceled finals they still had them go. It figures that after I graduate they became a bit loosened on the canceling of classes.
Ironically winning the NCAA Basketball championship is a reason they'll cancel classesto be fair basketball is a very very big thing there.
I did receive an email asking if I would open the accommodated testing center on campus... nope. Campus is closed for safety.
Sunday's high is Nassau is 58°
It’s the coastline that’s the problem though… part of the storm is over the Atlantic Ocean…
