Every fall, there's a specific week when the debate starts in households everywhere: is it time to flip the thermostat from cooling to heating? Mornings are chilly enough for a sweater, but afternoons still feel like summer's last stand. Flip too early and you're paying to heat a house that doesn't need it yet. Flip too late and you're shivering through your coffee. It turns out there's real logic — and money — behind getting this timing right.
As hurricane season continues into the fall, Hurricane Erin has once again shown how disruptive these storms can be. Over the past week, Erin churned up the Atlantic and lashed the East Coast with powerful winds and flooding.