Just be glad you haven't lived on eeka's block the past two months.

South Shore Pragmatist to National Grid and its proposed rate hike: Have you no sense of decency?

Channel 4 reports the utility is requesting state permission to cut its May-October gas rates by nearly 66% over what it charged in the same period last year.

As a National Grid gas customer, all I can say is: Yay.

Brian Christiansen posted this photo at 8 p.m. of the scene on Orchard Street in Medford;

New gas main installed today. Leaking tonight.

Used under this Creative Commons license.

In thousands of households in Revere, Everett, Malden, Medford and Melrose, alarm clocks lost their minds and started blinking "12:00," Channel 4 reports.

A friend currently dealing with family medical issues is told by a gas company dude that her gas pipes are ancient and they need to be replaced. OK, she says...and comes home to find her property ripped up six ways from Sunday (destroying hand-done landscaping), the sidewalk damaged, missing stonework from her yard, and...no sign of the company that was contracted by National Grid to do the work.

National Grid to dun city for damage to its gas mains after the water-main break earlier this week.

And there could be more service interruptions through the summer, National Grid (the Utility Formerly Known as Keyspan and Before That as Boston Gas) says.

Nothing like a good water/gas issue downtown on a Monday morning: