Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Electricity ...GFI...Scavenger Hunt

Well...tonight the kids are watching a DVD after dinner, I'm cleaning the kitchen and Mark is taking out the trash. Then it happened....yes the TV went off, then the fridge was off....then the kids yell ...WHAT HAPPENED! Mark went to check the breaker box but no fuse was tripped. So, here is where we start... the scavenger hunt. Almost every room had half the electricity working and half not. After checking the kitchen, garage, living room, dinning room, office, guest room and bathroom, (that would be the first floor where the power went out first) then ...laundry, our room and bathroom, Jema's room and bathroom, Mara's room....we finally found the culprit GFI plug in the little girls Jack n Jill bathroom. Yes...that would be almost as far away from the initial outage as possible. We were worried we may never find the source. After pushing the button...we waited... then there was electricity. You have to love how they wire new houses. Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder if the electrician sits and thinks about how much fun it would be when this happens to a family. Because, I am sure, he/she would have went right to the farthest point in the house first to check the GFI plug.

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