Do You Need to Check Your Batteries?

It was fairly pleasant yesterday, I believe it got up to 60 degrees. As a result, our heat never really kicked on. After dinner I was beginning to get a little chilly, and went to check the thermostat - it definitely needed to be bumped up a little. In so doing, I detected a faint smell of natural gas. I don't have much experience with natural gas. I cooked on a gas stove in California, but this house has a gas stove and gas furnace. I remember Tanner mentioning Sunday how he could smell natural gas outside. A few alarm bells started to go off in my head so I thought I would call and ask the gas company a few questions. "Columbia Gas, what's your emergency?" I don't have much natural gas experience but I'm smelling a little bit of gas when I turn my heat on coming through the vents. Is this okay? "Don't touch the phone, don't hang up when we're through, don't turn off lights that are on, don't turn on lights that are off...evacuate your house." That was a bit of jolt. I had two children already asleep and it was COLD outside. We evacuated to the car and waited 90 minutes outside, and then 90 more minutes in a neighbor's house. Turns out we had a carbon monoxide leak through the furnace, and would not be here this morning without following the promptings we received. I'm extremely glad to be awake this morning!