Saturday, August 12, 2017
Saturday, August 12, 2017
No gas!
Yesterday I came back from a walk to find the gas man in front of my house, explaining that he had shut off my gas. The house next door is being tented and we are on the same gas line! It would be off for two days. He gave me a number to call to arrange it to be turned on again on Monday. When I called I said my husband had died in April and I was the only name on the account now. Oh my! What is your social security number? When were you born? Wait a minute! Your number has been frozen by Expedia!! It will take two business days to clear it before we can turn on the gas! (By then I will be in Carlsbad.) But there is a way out? What? What? I must go to the nearest So Cal office, in the heart of Inglewood, and present two (not one) government issued photo IDs, and call a number. Trevor very kindly drove me to the office and they looked at my IDs, then gave me a phone to call the number. After a long wait Trev finally talked to a live human who gave him a code number. Then he had to hang up and present this number, along with my two IDs to another person behind what looked like a bullet proof glass partition. She gave him another number. Then he called the first phone number again and waited for a human being. The stars must have been aligned right. This time they said the transfer to my name was complete, and they could come and turn on the gas Monday, sometime between 12:00 noon and 8:00 PM. I would have to be there all that time.
In the meantime I have no gas, so cannot do laundry, take a shower or wash the dishes. Oh well, I have been through worse.
I wonder why they didn't ask how much my grandfather weighed at birth???
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I sympathize! At least you have a microwave! And running water. Long time ago, a hurricane knocked out power. It took three days to restore it in our neighborhood in Virginia Beach. The first day after the hurricane, we couldn't leave our neighborhood because there were trees down over the road. We learned why generators are very useful, especially if you have a well. Our well did not have a manual pump. No water for three days. We had stored water in the bathtub and in large bottles, so we could flush toilets on a limited basis. Our friends the Hunts let us take showers at their house. They had power after "only" one day. We bought a generator as soon as they were back in stock in the area. And have used it numerous times since.
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