I always noticed they have low gas prices compared to others around here and was a little leery of it. I'm glad I haven't gotten gas there and definitely won't be getting gas there now!

You are using two different phrases to describe the same thing.

If there is too much water in the fuel, that means too much liquid (water) is entering the cylinder, preventing complete combustion. Hydrolock. Can you explain the difference you are seeing between this and "lack of fuel"?

What happened to OP is not hydrolock. OPs car shut down to lack of fuel. They’re two very different things. Look anywhere for the definition of hydrolock and you’ll find something similar to this:

“ Hydrolock (a shorthand notation for hydrostatic lock or hydraulic lock) is an abnormal condition of any device which is designed to compress a gas by mechanically restraining it; most commonly the reciprocating internal combustion engine, the case this article refers to unless otherwise noted. Hydrolock occurs when a volume of liquid greater than the volume of the cylinder at its minimum (end of the piston's stroke) enters the cylinder. Since liquids are nearly incompressible the piston cannot complete its travel; either the engine must stop rotating or a mechanical failure must occur.“

Technically speaking, an engine is hydrolocked when it stops running due to water in the cylinder, even if it hasn't caused mechanical damage. What you are describing is hydrolock, it's just reversible so long as you haven't destroyed the piston.

Yes, in some people it's just minor

How does water being sucked into the air intake hydrolock an engine without also bending a connecting rod or otherwise causing the engine to stop? That is the definition of hydrolock. Too much liquid in the cylinder, regardless of how it got there (air intake being the obvious/common way).

There was an outbreak at a summer camp I work at a few years ago. Scary stuff, don’t mess around if you have the symptoms

It's just called Gulf on google, the address is in the post as well.

A small generator can power a propane furnace, it cannot power multiple heat pumps heating a house when it’s in the single digits though.

It takes way more water than a fuel injector will shoot into the cylinder to hydro lock an engine. What you’re thinking of happens when water gets sucked in through the air intake after driving through deep water.

In OPs case, even if it was 100% water that got injected into the engine, the car would stall immediately. No fuel = no run. Drain the tank, flush the lines, change the filters, maybe run an injector cleaner, and then the car is good as it was before the incident. Absolutely no risk of hydro lock in OPs situation.

This is easily testable. There's some goo you can put on the measuring stick that you drop down in the tank to see how full it is. That goo changes color if there is something other than gas (like water) mixed in with it. I used to have to do this weekly and log it when I worked at a grocery/gas store.

Which gas station?

Because those commercials showing cars bounding through 4 feet of snow is bullcrap

A controlled amount injected into cylinders with the engine tuned properly for it is how water and menthol injection systems work. An engine that can barely run because it’s choking on diluted with water gas is not the same thing at all. Some of that water is still collecting in the cylinder, enough and you can easily get a bent connecting rod. It doesn’t take much.

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I would say propane line to the house adds value. Even if you have no particular use for it. Just a thought if power goes out while you are away you can’t start a fire in the wood stove.

In a running engine water is sometimes injected into the cyclinders to cool down the temps and prevent pre-detonation, especially in older turbocharged engines with high boost. Menthol was also used.

You seem to have some things confused.

Hahahahaha! I live in one of those towns. My snark was at the OP.

Water in the combustion chamber leads to hydro lock. By injector does take a lot longer, but water in cylinder is hydro lock.

In the gas still shoot it into the cylinder, doesn’t matter how it gets there, water in the cylinder is what causes hydro lock.

Jerking and shaking is from misfires due to the gas not igniting. Water will just bend your connecting rods and it’s game over.

Get better soon d00d 💪

I’m only on here reading this because my stomach hurts so bad I can’t move, scrollings all I can do

You cancel your service and they are required to remove the tanks and reimburse you for any propane in them.

They are also under a timer if you want to press the issue.