In the night it snowed and blowed but that is not the worst of it. 
You know how in a partnership some jobs are just assumed by one partner and the other person does not think about them too much. Well, I never think about checking the gas mainly because John always does and I never do and because in a normal winter we never use very much – we heat with the fire and cook dinner and heat water for tea on the woodstove – plus I was away in New Zealand during the really bad cold so did not see the extra use of gas for additional heating. This does not mean I should not have checked it though. It is not technically anyones job and you know what they say about assumptions.
I just never thought of it and John was still only thinking about it.
And we have run out of gas. This morning the central heating was trying to click on and there is no hot water. No gas. The big gas tank in the garden is empty. The house is very cold.
Though we are at a high this morning of 24F/-4C the temperatures will steadily fall from here to near 3F /-16C.
And I have a feeling that today is a public holiday. Yes. I checked. It is Martin Luther King day. I think we will be out of hot water for a good 24 hours yet.
Thank goodness we have the woodstove. Though it is getting on in age and is not as efficient as it once was we will be warm if we are in the main room and can still cook our food. A Soup I think.
There is always a chance that the gas company is open and a truck will have time to come out and fill the tank. That would be a bonus.
Or we will be unwashed pioneers for a few days. A little hardship will be ok. I bet John goes out to his heated workshop for the day though!!
WEATHER: Cold and then colder with a nasty wind.
Monday 01/15 40% / < 1 in
Snow this morning will taper off and give way to cloudy skies this afternoon. Morning high of 24F/-4C with temps falling to near 10F. Winds W at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 40%.
Monday Night 01/15 20% / 0 in
Mostly cloudy. A few flurries or snow showers possible. Low 3F/-16C. Winds W at 15 to 25 mph.
Sun
7:15 am 4:49 pm
Moon
Waning Crescent, 2% visible 6:01 am 3:52 pm
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The Kitchen's Garden 
56 responses to “DARK SNOW”
I’m glad your all sorted, I hate being without heat or hot water. I’m a softie! 😀
Having a daily shower is such a luxury..
Thank goodness for your wood-burner stove. You might not be able to wash, but at least you can make a cup of tea…
Exactly – to do without my cup of tea would be AWFUL!
We in most of South Africa are experiencing a Heat Wave… I hate cold but would gladly send you some sunshine 🙂
Imagine a world where we could dial up the perfect weather for a specific day. I would have sunchine every day but not so much the heat wave! I hope you are doing OK in that heat. c
I’m relieved to read your heat is back up and I’m glad to know your man loves Boo and Boo loves him! As you said, That helps!
Noooooo! In Spain we have has canisters and we’ve had our emergency moments too 😐
Who is ‘the old codger’ with the dripping faucets you were speaking of? When I was a kid, the water would freeze in the pipes of our 4-storey house in Oregon during the winter. When it started to thaw and the water began to flow, the melody of air rattling pipes was something to behold! What a racket – 4 floors of it!!! Doesn’t seem to happen here in Central California, but we do keep a light on the well and pump house to prevent it from freezing up. Your ‘cold’ is much worse than ours, and I’m freezing. We only have one stove in the front room, space heaters in the rest of the house.
Wow glad this post wasn’t what I first thought! I saw “dark snow” and immediately assumed you’d had predators come in the night…
PHEW!: )
The only positive thing I can think is…’At least you won’t be sweating’…. seeing as you won’t be able to take a shower for a day or two. Poor you !!
Maybe you shoulda grabbed a bottle or two of wine, a big ole blanket and cuddled up with the Kitties and Boo and Ton!!! Nice of the gas man to come out and fill your tanks ~~ and play with Boo~~ 4″ of snow all around here and quite windy!! Hope all the animals are keeping warm!! And you n John stay warm!!
nice
Our air conditioning all but stopped cooling the week before Christmas with 40+ temps for over a week before we could finally get someone around on Jan 5th. I was a limp rag by then. Glad you got the situation resolved. I was also in Ohio in the ’78 blizzard. Very bad.
Bugger. Murphys Law. Good to hear it’s sorted. We rent a big gas bottle for the kitchen stove, which has on occasion run out mid cook-bake. Fortunately we can swap out a bbq bottle until the delivery guy gets out here usually within a couple of days. Those Illinois winter temps make me shake my head and wonder. Our summer temps have flipped from storms & incredible humidity in the 40’s C to mid 20’s C with dry gusty winds taking the moisture back, and no rain in site. The weather does what it will!
I survived two winters in Northern Illinois with only a couple space heaters to keep the pipes from freezing. No gas, no hot water, no central heat, it was COLD. I’d have given a lot for a wood stove, it would’ve given at least one room warm enough to be somewhat comfortable and a way to heat water. Trying to cook a full meal on a single burner hot plate is no fun day after day like that. I’d far rather have too much heat than not enough, and no hot water was miserable. Hopefully that won’t ever happen again.
oh phooey….I hate it when we forget important things like that! Our gas guy comes by on a regular schedule and tops us off…thank goodness!
Stay warm and cozy by the fire…
Oh, dear . . . our furnace went on the fritz a few weeks ago, and that was remedied late in the day. I see from comments that everything is back in order. Here’s to a peaceful and warm evening.
Hope you get it sorted quickly. We ran out of oil for our heating over the first (unseasonally cold) Easter weekend we were in this house (always had mains gas before so never thought to check). Took 4 days to come out because of the holiday, so I feel your pain!