UGH! I hate the odor from propane gas!

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As many of you know I have been staying at my brother's house taking care of things while he and his wife are on vacation. For the most part, I love everything about the house and the property 1. because it is a 5 acre parcel that was part of the family ranch from way before the Great Depression, and 2. the house is what my dad had built in memory of my mom (it was to be their dream home, but mom passed away before it could be built. Anyway, there is one thing that I do not like...in order to have heat for the house there are two huge propane tanks. Granted it's great when the PG & E goes out because even without electricity, we would still have heat to keep warm and cook. But it's been up in the mid 90s the last week since I've been here. The other night I noticed the strong smell of the gas, and hoped upon hope that maybe it was blowing on the breeze from one of the neighbors' houses. No such luck. I walked over to the tanks, and one of them was actually HISSING! And that scared the daylights out of me. Plus the smell was so strong that I got physically ill and very dizzy. I booked it back up the driveway to the house and called my brother, who told me that it was probably the pop off valve releasing pressure from the tank because of the heat during the day. But just to be sure, he told me he would call me in the morning to see if it was still doing it, which meant that I would have to call the propane company to have them come out and service the tank. This morning, I got up and went and checked the tank, and thankfully the hissing had stopped. So it was just the valve doing what it was supposed to do. I was relieved because I honestly thought something was seriously wrong, and my brother was relieved because I was safe and he wasn't going to have to fork out the major bucks to have the tank worked on. Those things are so expensive to deal with! The tank started hissing and smelling up the place again tonight, but this time I kwew what it was and wasn't so stressed. Just nauseous from the smell. Has something like this happened to you?