Well, we have a nice, outdoor (thankfully) gas leak tonight. I was going to stay up and blog about something tonight, but I can’t remember what it was. Oh wait, yes I do. Later. Anyway, my Dad was letting our dog out to use the facilities (if the grass can be called that), and smelled it outside our back door, asking me for confirmation. My nose isn’t that sensitive, but I stepped outside and wowsers! We have a gas leak somewhere. Actually out front it smells about as strongly as in back, so either it’s big, it’s been going for a while (but we were out earlier this evening for dinner and didn’t smell it when we got home), or, well, I don’t know since I’m not a gas expert (well, not the kind used for heating anyway :-)
As long as it’s outdoors I’m not too worried or anything (I’ll have to survive on “Nicorette”:http://nicorette.quit.com/ for now…ha ha, I don’t smoke in case you don’t know me :-) but it does add some excitment to my vacation thus far. And, if you read this before it’s resolved (and most of you won’t…it is almost 1 am!), it gives you a reason to come back and read more. And that’s worth it. I think. Updates to come (should go without saying)…
Update:
It’s 1:09 am, gas company just left. It was a loose pipe (connecting the meter to the service line or something) that caused a leak “just big enough to make it stink” in the serviceman’s words. Good thing they carry wrenches :-)
Nice to have mostly false alarms, huh?
Oh yeah…I found the 24/7 “emergency gas leak reporting phone number”:http://www.citizensgas.com/contactus.html online in about 20 seconds…go Internet! (I could have found it faster, but I forgot the name of the gas company at first and had to ask my Dad.)