So I was abruptly awoken this morning by the sound of a big electrical bang and everything off in my room. I figured a transformer blew, but when I walked out into the main house I could hear the fridge running, but the lights wouldn`t come on? Oh this ain`t good at all. Walked down to the basement to the electrical panel and saw two breaker tripped. Eh, no biggie. Tried resetting the breaker to my outlets and instead tripped instantly (dead short). Shoot... Tried the lighting circuit and as soon as I was greeted by the sound of a buzz-pop-and bang! Come to find out we had a major power surge in town, and the noise that woke me up was the surge protector for my computer blowing up, literally. The only outlet on the lighting circuit had to be in my room with the protector for my alarm clock and phone chargers. Luckily it only took out my two surge protectors and not the equipment plugged into it. Also lost my "radio" in the garage. I`ve had those almost 20 years... Grandmothers house next door it took out all of her surge protectors! Normally I`m used to them tripping, but they literally went up in smoke! Apparently the water line over there wasn`t grounded like I thought. Getting word that all over town peoples stuff are fried; sounds like we got lucky.
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