Andy, Isla, Torii, and I are house sitting/babysitting Kaley for my dad while the fam is in Florida. I was invited to Florida, but had to pass due to my fear of planes and the fact that I don't fit into a bathing suit.
Anyway, all day yesterday I kept thinking that I smelled natural gas. My family has a gas stove, so I kept telling myself it was normal to smell a little gas. As the day went on, I couldn't shake the nagging suspicion that something might be wrong. I finally opened up the cabinets under the stove, and that is when I smelled a lot of natural gas. After a million unanswered calls to my dad and Donna, I finally decided to call Nicor and have them come out.
One hour later, I find out my dad had a pretty significant gas leak on both ends of his stove! Thankfully, Nicor was able to fix it immediately. They said had the house been left empty for a week or so, there was the potential for explosion due to the amount of gas that was leaking. HOLY CRAP! I wouldn't be surprised if that had been leaking for a while. Nothing gets fixed in this house, and no one really pays attention to things around here.
Of course, my dad has no CO2/natural gas detector in his home. I wouldn't be surprised if his smoke detectors aren't working. So today, I am buying him a CO2 detector and testing all of his smoke detectors. It drives me nuts that I am the one doing this. I don't even see a fire extinguisher in this house. And very obviously, there are no emergency kits anywhere ;)
To make matters worse, Andy and Tom both smelled natural gas Monday night and never did anything about it! To be fair, we were grilling out, and I'm sure they thought it was from the grill, but still. There was no follow up, no thinking twice about a potential gas leak.
I guess my brain works differently than others. Being such a worrier, I immediately think gas leak. I just wish I wasn't the only one worrying!
7 years ago
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That is very scary Betsy, good thing you called someone (worrying paid off this time)! We had the same issue a couple months ago - we didn't smell anything but out CO2 detector kept going off. Frankie of course thought it was a faulty machine (we have had it for 7 years) so the next day we bought a new one and it seemed okay for about a week and then at midnight one night it went off again so I called x-cel. They came out and found out that our stove kicks off really high amounts of Carbon Dioxide when we use the stove. So now we are very careful to make sure windows are open and the over head fan is on. We plan to get a new stove but for now we just take precations when we use it! Scary stuff I tell you.
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