Carbon Monoxide!?

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Weird. The smoke alarm went off, not incredibly odd when I am using the fireplace, but it wasn't the smoke detector. It was the CO alarm. I was totally surprised. It had never gone off as long as I have had one, over many many years. Yep, after resetting it a few times. It was getting a reading over 200 ppm CO. When I took it downstairs I got a reading near 300 ppm. I started getting light headed at this point. After thinking maybe the furnace heat exchanger failed and puzzling around a bit I figured out what happened. As part of the huge winter storm that recently covered almost half of the US, we lost our electricity. So, being well prepared, I rolled out the generator and started doing what I normally do. The generator (although it was completely outside) was creating CO to get in the house. Using the fireplace draft (and possibly other leaks) the whole house created a vacuum around the seal of the basement garage door. After the CO got into the house the forced air heat...
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I don't know how it happened, but I have a few minutes to blog. I am in Bavaria Germany. The weather has been a bit rainy so I cannot appreciate the view of the alps. The food has been outstanding. I started thinking about the different places I have been staying each night. In another week I will not have spent more than two days in the same bed for weeks. Most places it it is one night. It is nomadic. It does get to you when you walk out in a hallway and just plain do not remember which way you are going and to go where? I am having a good time. I head back to Atlanta for one day and then up to Hampton, VA. for a meeting for a few days.

This is what a wind turbine looks like at 200kph (125 MPH) on the autobahn. No, I wasn't driving.

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