That should be southwestern Pennsylvania... not southwestern US. I'm about an hour south of Pittsburgh, very close to West Virginia actually.
Okay, so I strolled up to Petco today. They had some BP's that looked to be healthy and were in the $60-$150 range. None really drew me in like some of the morphs I have seen. I was about to start loading up a cart with a 20long critter cage and some other stuff when I happened to ask a group of guys working there if they had thermostats in stock. Turns out, he is BOA guy and is going to the same expo I was planning on going to tomorrow. He kinda laughed and said, I wouldn't buy anything here... go to the expo and see what you can find. Worst case, you have to come back here or another pet store to pick up an enclosure, but it's likely that I can find something, perhaps even something used there for a lot less. I also spoke to someone from the expo via Facebook and they assured me I can get anything and everything there if I so choose. So now I'll just wait until tomorrow and check things out and see where that takes me.
I did have another question come to mind today... what do you all do in the event power goes out at your house? Do you use a computer UPS system or something, or just try to keep the enclosure warm?