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.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I had a $220/mo flat payment set up... average monthly last year was $200, so it was OK. But this winter, high natural gas prices drove our bill up to the $300-350 level for several months, and we built up a balance unknowingly.