Our Hero
At about 8:30 this morning I started feeling cold, so I put on my warmer slippers. Then I wandered past the thermostat in the hall and WHOA! the temperature was not what it was supposed to be. "Do you suppose we're out of propane?" I asked The Husband - and went outside to look. Sure enough - the gauges read zero on both tanks. Oops! The company has us on "auto" which means they have some complicated way of knowing that we need filling up - but it seemed to have failed. So - of course, it being Sunday - I had to call the emergency line and leave a plaintive message. Mind you - it is COLD and the weather is going to be nasty starting tonight, so a delivery tomorrow would be highly unlikely.
Fortunately, they called back pretty soon. Apologetic. Called their drivers to see where they were (they were out doing Monday's deliveries today because of the weather situation) and about 30 minutes later Kenny showed up - he had been just down the road about 10 minutes away. This is Kenny's brand new 2025 truck! He's very proud of it. He also said he had noticed he had been having trouble previously filling one of our two 100 gallon tanks, so his theory is that what we need is to have our two replaced by one larger (260 gallon) tank - the kind that's shaped like a submarine because clearly one of our old tanks (they date from 2005) is getting funky. He said he'd put that in his notes. And then he stayed and fiddled with our back-up furnace (the electric heat pump only works down to about 40 degrees F) while it went through some shenanigans getting itself sorted out and the lines full of gas again. The house is warm again and we are relieved!
Kenny is our hero.
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