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August 07, 2005
Electrifying!
Well, we had a fun adventure last night/this morning. Not.
Late last night, Victor was downstairs, watching TV, with the A/C turned up way too high, and it blew the breaker for the living room. It happens, on occasion, and usually isn't any problem to correct. Usually.
The outside lights are on the same circuit, as the living room, so it's almost impossible to see what you're doing, when trying to flip the breaker, at night. He flipped the wrong one - the MAIN breaker, to the entire house, and guess what? It BROKE. Yup, the main power breaker, broken, which means, we ended up with no power, in the entire house!
We both switched breakers on and off, on and off, and nothing was working. So, given that it was very late, we couldn't see what we were doing, and it didn't look as though we were going to be able to figure it out, without the help of someone who understands that kind of thing, we went to bed. Fortunately it wasn't too terribly hot, last night, and having the windows open seemed to keep it cool enough for us to sleep alright. Also, the girls were spending the night, at a neighbor girl's house, so that was one less thing to stress about. Alex was already asleep, by this time, and it was cool enough, in his room, that his sleep wasn't disturbed, any.
I had a Bingbong wake-up call, at 6:30, this morning (he was wrapped up in my hair, chewing on it, loudly), so I got up, grabbed my cell phone, and called my dad, who I knew was already awake, at that time of day. He sounded as if he knew what the problem was (a broken main power breaker switch), and said he'd be right over.
He was right, the switch was dead, and needed replaced. Sounds easy enough, but apparently, it's a lot harder than it seems. So, Victor and he, worked on it, and worked, and worked, and worked. Many trips to the hardware store, a lot of cussing, and four hours later, FINALLY, we had power again! *PHEW*
What a pain in the ass, but at least they got it fixed before it started getting hot!
Posted by Romy at August 7, 2005 01:46 PM
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ooo... victor's a manly man. he can fix electricity!
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at August 7, 2005 02:37 PM