lovely stuff....
Yesterday I found out we were lucky not to be eletrocuted in the shower.... but to the whole story...
The electrician came by at about nine, just after I woke up. he fixed the stove for us, but as to the reason the lights and stuff were flickering when we turned stuff on, he had never seen it before... so he called the electric company, and they sent people out... the tested our house connection and the next thing I know they were disconnecting our power out at the pole... one of the guys came over and told me that we had a defect notice on our overhead fuse box (the main box next to the wire that brings the electricity into the house) because it was "burnt out" apparently he only touched the fuse and it fell off... and then he told me that the electricity was coming into the house, but because the fuse was stuffed it wasnt going back out, it was going through our house earth which touches the water pipes... so that could have been interesting...
mind you, this also meant I missed out on my shower before work, so we had no power for a few hours before I left, I had to call the real estate to get the electrician back to replace the box so that our power could be turned back on... luckily this happened before I got home, otherwise it would have been no dinner for us, our stove is electric.. and it would have been no shower for me, our hot water system is electric too... *sigh*
ahh well... they say bad luck comes in three's, that should be the end of it.. right????
