Cold in Florida and the furnace has brain damage  

Sixty-eight degrees sounds fairly comfortable to me, although it is a tad warm. Well, at least you do have heat. That's a good thing.

LOL I would welcome 30 F LOL we are at 9 F right now and it is probably gonna get colder tonight. I have in the past had to deal with furnaces not working but I always had a woodstove to keep me toasty warm. Make sure you bundle up.

Our burner malfunctioned 2 weeks ago so we had 2 days without heat. We used space heaters until it was fixed and at night I have electric mattress pad that I turn on to heat the bedding before I go to sleep ( I turn it off after I get toasty warm as I would overheat from the down comforter. 68 is hot for us in winter.

Why not invest in a few space heaters, or an electric blanket? My Mom lived in Clearwater and their house had a real fireplace.

Hey spall,
All I can say is get the furnace fixed. I live in Orlando and I can handle the cold, or at least I used to. But the longer I'm here the more the cold gets to me. The people up North have gotten thicker coats, body coats then we do. If we went up there right now we'd freeze to death. I like my bedroom to be cool at night but the rest of the house is not so much fun without a little heat to take the chill off. Good luck with that furnace.
leenie

Hey spalladino! Yup! I up here in NY, where the artic air
is blowing and it is a balmy 21 right now and that is a
heat wave compared to what it will be like when it gets
to be morning and the snow arrives bringing with it some
cooler temps! I do know how you feel because you guys aren't
used to it being that cold there and it is a shock to your
system! I know being in the 30's for Florida is really cold!
My Mom complains when she has to use the "heating system" too!
She says the same thing that you are saying! Florida is just
not meant to have to use the heating systems so they never
work right! But, my landlord doesn't ever believe that it
needs to be even 68 degrees inside so for me that would be
really nice! I am sitting in my kitchen/office with the
oven on! This is the warmest spot in the apartment! Smart of
me to make this my office huh? Actually, it was the only place
to put the computer! Lucky for me I don't pay for the gas!
Oh no! It just dropped a degree! I have the weatherbug on
the computer so I can see it while I'm typing! Great! I'm
sitting here with my hoody on, hood up and all! It's now 2:00am
and I need to go into the bedroom, which is the the coldest
room except for the bathroom, which really feels like you're
outside! My boyfriend has the comforter over his head so you
can't even find him! The cold doesn't seem to bother him!
Well, stay warm! Hope the heater cooperates!

Sorry to hear that your furnace is being a pain. If ours were to go out or act up I would sell my children to get it fixed This morning when I woke up it was -20 wind chill and tonight the actual air temp is suppose to be -9. Hope you stay warm!

lol. i cannot remember the last time i saw 68! seriously, it is absolutely freezing up here in canada! the high is -25C tonight which makes 68 seem absolutely BALMY! shall i send you some cold air? (now you know why you live in florida eh?)

Well I have been through this. It was last January. I rent the house that I live in. Well the gas man came to replace the meter because they said that it needed to be done. So he came into our house to turn off the gas to my furnace. He said that my furnace was broken and had to cut the gas to the house, so we had no furnace. It was -35 degrees celcius here. Anyways it took my landlord a week to get it replaced. We had exotic pets here and kids, so we had to use baseboard heaters and our oven to keep the house warm.

I'm sorry that your furnace is broken, I think 68 is cold for inside, I like to keep mine at 74. 30 would feel like a heat wave to me right now lol. sometimes my furnace quits working but we call maintenance and he has to come right out and fix it.

So far, our heater is fine but we have hoorible drafts in the house so even with the heat on it's cold in the house. We rent so we aren't going to pay to replace windows and things. Our pipes froze to our washing machine the other night. It was -20 degrees with the windchill and boy did it everfeel like it.