when it rains...

[jay]

I'm just back up.... at home. After I arrived home earlier, Kevin was accompanied by a power company guy. Who handed me a "how to reconnect service" tag, and then disconnected our electric service for non-payment. Three hours and $700 later, we're back up. Sigh.

The 48-hour disconnect notice had been mailed and arrived last week, while I was in Houston. It was still sitting in a pile of unopened mail from last week, sandwiched between real estate flyers and credit card offers.

I'm on the road a lot, and patgreene hates dealing with bills or finances, so I set up automatic payments for all utilities and payments. In this case, winter bills had been higher than my automatic payment amounts for several months, a balance had accumulated, and no one saw the disconnection notice until it was too late.

Now we'll have to post a deposit, as well... (shakes head).

Back to work, now that the house is back running.

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

*sigh* That really sucks, man.

who_is_she has a point though--maybe you should find out if it's possible to get such notices e-mailed to you. That would undoubtedly work a LOT better.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(hug) thanks, dear.

I'm going to check out whether I can get electronic billing. And complain about having made regular payments, to try to avoid a deposit.