Wednesday evening the lights didn't just flicker, they went on and off and then boom!
Erik was upstairs on the computer and thought the TV up there had exploded, which it did, along with the computer he was working on and the one next to it and the DVD/VCR combo.
We also lost our range hood lights which were halogen and not cheap to replace.
I've noticed several light bulbs out and our outside eve lighting doesn't work.
Tyler's office survived, but the surge protector everything was plugged into did not.
The smoking electronics set off the fire alarm and poor Ashlyn was in the tub at the time.
The exasperating thing about this whole deal is Tyler fought with our electrician to put in a whole house surge protector, just hook it up to the box. Tyler even bought one at the Home Depot, but it was the wrong size and the electrician said to not worry about it, that he'd get it sorted out. Ya, that didn't happen. We shouldn't have paid him until it was done right. But with home building, we learned you just pick your battles sometimes.
Some good news in all this is that my kids are going through computer withdrawals and they actually pulled out a board game to play together today.
When we get kid computers functioning again, we may just have to implement an electronic fast every now and then :)
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