Enough drama, thank you

Everyone's ok, thank goodness.

Yesterday was day 1 of a 2 day electrical switchover related to the new construction. We're adding a bunch of circuits in the new place and changing the line from the street to the house from overhead to underground. One or two of the circuits being added are 220V for woodworking equipment.

Kim arrives home for lunch and sees the electrician's vehicle in the driveway. She walks into the house and passes by the fish tank. Or is about to. Something catches her attention. Flames.

The timer that regulates the lights for the fish tank is on fire. She reaches over and unplugs the powerstrip for the timer. The fire goes out.

She talks to the electricians. They discover that 240V is running through some of the circuits. Something happens and that problem disappears.

Kim and the electricians do a survey of the house.

Items that fell victim to the "power spike" (I think it was electrician incompetence):

Power adapter for network router
Answering machine/phone
Air conditioner logic card

So, we are currently without internet and A/C at home. The logic card may take 3-4 days to arrive. I hope to find an appropriate adapter for the router today. Failing that, I'll get the new route I was planning to get once the construction was done.

We also discovered that the thieves took the microwave/vent hood for the new addition that we had stored in our dining room.

If Kim had been a few minutes later, we would probably be out our entire house and our pets. So we had some good luck there.

However, if our trend of luck continues, Dean could be a real issue next week.