For some years I had a rental home in Fargo, ND serviced by Excel Energy. The phone number on my account was my landline at my home in Maine. On three occassions, I received calls at about 2 am saying the cold weather and subsequent high natural gas useage required a shut off of gas to my home for a period of time (I don’t remember how long).
Hmmm?
Typically when gas is turned off all the pilot lights go out, requiring they all be re-lit lest the house fill up with gas while the home owner is out and ‘self-level’ when the homeowner returns and does something silly like turn on the lights or open the garage with an automatic garage door opener-upper...