Two or three times in the nearly four years we've lived in this house I've had to relight the pilot in our gas water heater -- including this morning when we realized that our water was cold.
This afternoon I went into the utility/furnace room to get something and was greeted by a strong smell of gas -- and of course the pilot was out again.
Is it possible that this was caused by running the attic fan to get some air circulating in the attic while I did some work up there -- that the fan was sucking so much air down the water-heater chimney that it blew the flame out? The fan is mounted in the ceiling blowing air out of the house into the roof space -- and in this case out through the access hatch (in the garage) which was open. I didn't have any windows or doors open at the time.
Perce