Unpowered

We got our power shut off today. I was laying in bed, ready to get up when the fan just went dead. A couple weeks ago, we had power outages for several days straight, lasting 1-8 hours or so each. I thought this was repeating. But then the doorbell rang. Having just awakened, I was not ready to answer the door. By the time I got to the window to see who it was, I saw a power company van pulling away.

It turns out that for the last six months we had been paying our bill for our previous account number. We had moved and never updated our online banking with the new account number.

You'd think that at some point in the last six months, we may have at LEAST gotten a letter to the effect of "Why are you still paying on this closed account?" Instead they merrily accepted the payment each month and accrued a growing balance on our current account.

It is all straightened out now, but what a damn inconvenience.