Yesterday morning, a friend of ours called to say she had a strong smell of natural gas in her house. She was waiting for the gas company to arrive.
Turns out, the problem was that her gas meter was completely buried by snow. That meant a regulator with some kind of exhaust valve couldn't work properly, so natural gas built up under her siding and entered her house.
We know about making sure our furnace pipes aren't clogged by snow (nowadays they come out the side of the house instead of the chimney), but I'd never heard this one.
In other public service news, we have now broken the record for snowfall in one winter. They've been tracking this stuff for 138 years and we have now had more snow than any other winter, over 79 inches. It's snowing right now. It's supposed to snow again on Thursday. I give up.
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