Electricity

Friday evening our electricity was acting funny. When our heat pump would run, the electricity would go dim and get brighter. After our fish fry (see earlier post), we put the kids to bed, and I was in bed reading, and noticed the electricity still doing the dim and brighter thing. We decided to brave the cold and turn the heat pump off as someone was coming out in the morning to look at it.
I went back to read, and the electricity still was acting up.
I started unplugging things and walked into the kitchen and smelled hot. I was really worried at this point. I got the kids from their bedrooms and put them both in our bed.
Broc then decided to call the electric company and report the problem. (we knew at this point it wasn't the heat pump!)
About the same time, we noticed that one of our neighbors didn't have any electricity. (the security lights and all were out).
The electric company called back saying that they would send a truck out to check things out. A little after that, we lost all power for about 20 minutes.














It turned out that something happened to a transformer about 1/2 mile down the road, and blew a fuse on our electric input.














All was fixed and we could turn the heat back on and go to bed.