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Today’s Bottom Line column:

Look what The Bottom Line just uncovered beneath several feet of drifting snow:

Gas furnaces, carbon monoxide and rotten eggs: Homes heated by natural gas vent a byproduct, carbon monoxide, to the outside of the house. A side-wall vent blocked by drifting snow, trapping carbon monoxide in the home, could be deadly.

Connecticut Natural Gas and Southern Connecticut Gas responded to about 250 reports of gas leaks caused by clogged side-wall vents or buried meter and regulator sets during the weekend blizzard, says spokesman Michael West.

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