Whooooohoooohoooo!!!!!! OK so really. We have a tree trying to take us out! It all started last night when the lights started flickering and then... BAM! No internet. The power kept surging off and on. We thought " OK, must be the heat plus the window units. Its too much. " Right? So, we unplugged and turned everything off. Called the cable company to fix the internet and went to bed.
The next morning (OK today, this morning) we got up and started doing our thing. Turned on the stuff we turned off last night. And... The flickering began again. Then suddenly there was a weird noise in Dylan's room. "What the!?" He yelled. I ran in to see what was wrong and his entire desk (its like a table) was COVERED in a hazy smoke!!! "What?! Is there a fire??" I yelled. No just smoke. The power surged, his surge protector FAILED and it took out the kids TV and ALL our gaming systems.
Turns out a tree had grown into the power lines connecting us to the poll and had severed the ground wire and was keeping the lines from connecting right. Also took out the cable lines.
The surge also took out my NEW oven (OK its a year old, that's still new.) And we are still finding stuff. We have been warned it was a big enough surge other things can just crap out any time. So... Yay.
On the bright side there was no fire. We are all safe. And OG&E needs to do better line maintenance.
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