DerbyDad03 wrote:

Was does frost have to do with having a basement or not?

My understanding is that in areas that have frost, footings have to
go four feet or more underground. Builders often decide that if
they have to dig that deep, they might as well dig a little deeper
and have a basement they can use for water heaters, furnaces, oil
tanks, water filters, water softners, electrical panels, pipe,
ductwork and wire runs etc.
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When a cat sits in a human's lap both the human and the cat are usually
happy. The human is happy because he thinks the cat is sitting on him/her
because it loves her/him. The cat is happy because it thinks that by sitting
on the human it is dominant over the human.