#I'd expect my radiators to be coming on a little more regularly when it's..... yknow. THIS cold out??

[goatsandgangsters]

at 11 pm my radiators hadn’t come on since 5 pm and it’s 59f/15c degrees in my apartment and I’m like, yknow, understandably a little concerned that something is wrong with the heat when we’re in a city-wide polar vortex cold emergency and the “feels like” temp outside is currently -28f/-33c and it’s going to keep getting colder 

so I called the building maintenance company. and she was like “well no one else in your building has complained. and there’s nothing the maintenance guy can do for one unit so just keep an eye on it and make sure your windows are shut tight” 

like. ma’am. I live in a small studio apartment with one exterior wall that is literally 6 windows on it. 6 windows which were built in 1925 and have never been replaced. a wall of 6 windows with wooden frames and no insulation. 

I think perhaps, if I have just told you that my heat has not come on in 6 hours when it is -24 outside and we’re in a cold emergency that closed schools today and my apartment is currently below the legal limit of heat that is supposed to be provided to tenants. 

you’d think. you’d think you might say something more helpful than “well tonight’s the coldest it’s gonna get and then it’ll be a little warmer tomorrow.” (it won’t. the high for tomorrow is 17/-8.)