Earlier this week, one cold, unsuspecting night, right after Duke beat Georgia Tech, we experienced sudden yet selective power loss. And by selective I mean it affected the outlets in the living room, two out of three lights in the kitchen and our back porch light, but the outlets in the kitchen (including the refrigerator, thankfully) and the light over the sink worked just fine, as did and the overhead lights in the laundry room, living room, hallway and stairwell. We blamed the small space heater we had plugged into an extension cord which was then plugged into a power strip, the same power strip as our TV and modem. We flipped all of the breakers before calling my dad for assistance (he knows stuff) but it soon became clear we needed professional help.
Two days later Matt Potts (from church) came to our rescue. The culprit ended up being a burnt cap in one of our switch boxes (the space heater was the straw that broke the camel's back). He fixed us up in no time at all (it was only a matter of minutes once he found the problem).
Not having internet access for a couple of days was a bit of an inconvenience but on the bright side Phillip didn't have to reset the router, which is always a pain, and we got to enjoy a couple of candlelit dinners.
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