Physically fine, but very shaken…
This past Shabbat I smelled gas before candlelighting. I turned off our gas heater (Yunkers–only for heating and it is already in tye 70s here) and flipped the switch of out gas stove. In the evening I still smelled gas, but all the windows were open, so I wasn’t worried.
After Shabbat I called our neighbor who is doing renovations and asked if he had been working with the gas on Friday. He said yes, came right over and turned off the gas. The smell cleared up immediately, and he said the gas company would be back to fix it on Monday.
This would all be not so interesting in and of itself if it wasn’t for today’s
news story. This gas canister explosion was 5 doors down from where we live! We didn’t actually hear the explosion because our building is set in from the street, but we did see and hear the ambulances at 5AM. My heart goes out to the families of the two people killed, and prayers to the people who were injured.
