The power outage the other night saved our lives! by phelimint

teamcanada · @phelimint · Dec 16 '17 (edited)

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The power outage the other night saved our lives!

How's that for a dramatic title, it may even be true, or maybe just a little bit of literary hyperbole. Hopefully that makes sense, I'll give up on big words and get on with the story.

There was a power outage in the middle of the night recently, well that ment the kids night lights turned off and they instantly lost there glue. Screaming bloody murder like that sky was falling. So we brought them into our bed to finally settle them but turns out there too squirmy and large to fit all four of us in the bed these days.

So I went to there room to curl up in the little bed. Well the power came back on after a few hours and our electric heat came ripping back to life, followed closely after by a faint smell.

I figured I was just sleeping on pee pee sheets or something else equally gross that came out of one of the kids.

When I woke up later for the day, the smell was still there so I decided to follow my nose.

Like a trained hunting dog I finally found the source!

![IMG_5560.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU7338sYCN8RChUm33tQFnLBCp7AvuFVj5UwF2AraZNwd/IMG_5560.JPG)

The electric baseboard heater in the wall.

![IMG_5561.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPbHSZoRxmScysgdBTSgoeTh8nPF8K8Bi32P2ScetCyb1/IMG_5561.JPG)

I was able to scoop out this little piece from inside nicely warped and well on its way to burning the house down!

![IMG_5558.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcTGDXexHJRbpSCd4nSrgPZBdpeyGpGTsq6QMENpvgCTR/IMG_5558.JPG)

I also noticed a bit of clear melted plastic in the fins that I was unable to remove so I decide to dismantle the whole thing and clean in out.

That's when I got attacked by this wooden snake!

![IMG_5555.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUvEFFwr9AmBoQSY65E6X3Vxj399YCdc6NivAYJ5ekCBZ/IMG_5555.JPG)

After I finshed screaming like a little girl due to my paralysing fear of snakes I took a closer look.

![IMG_5556.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmc36SwQYBsxVBM8i6JXDnSbpvkKqiCAWLkxUKwAu3bAus/IMG_5556.JPG)

The thing had some pretty good charring on it and maybe during another cold night with the heater blaring it certainly could have self ignited!

Needless to say everyone had a stern talking to about not stuffing anything in there and we also now have a twice daily inspection of the heater.

I've been looking extensively for an option to cover it but turns out there's nothing commercially available for electric heaters, only the hot water baseboard heaters. Turns out it's too hot and dangerous to put anything that close to them!

I've been talking with an electrical place here in town and they think they would be a way to modify a safety screen for a commercial light fixture so I'll have to do a little bit of construction.

<h1> I hope my little story serves as a warning for anyone else with electric heaters. </h1>

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@cecicastor · Dec 16 '17

Oh, my goodness!  Many years ago, lived in an apartment that was one of the first in our city to be built with the new and improved electric wiring and heating systems. Aluminium wiring, copper connections and  very poor construction methods. Needless to say there was a problem. I came home from for lunch one day and saw the fire trucks out side my building. You know, think that someone's apartment was on fire, not cluing in that it could be mine...To make the long story short, the fire was contained to my apartment but I lost everything. Fire Marshall's office concluded that the aluminium wiring connected to the copper connectors had arched, sparking and eventually setting the place on fire. I found another place to live promptly but was careful to ask about wiring...

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@pit-bullion · Dec 16 '17

Yeah man. That was a close call. And the snake lol. Buddy had an outlet in the attic that was pretty sketchy. When he found it he said it looked like it had almost caught fire a few times. All black around the the inside after tje cover was off.  Scary business

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@mikeshuh · Dec 16 '17

Glad everything turned out all right. That snake looks damn real!

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@owenwat · Dec 16 '17

well done following your sniffer great detective work :)

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@cycling-goldfish · Dec 16 '17

Love the detective work!

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@byn · Dec 16 '17

HOLY COW!!! That is scary (also, your humor kept making me laugh... but then I'd feel bad for laughing at it because you could have had your house burned down!)

I leave this post feeling confused... :/

I suppose it's better to laugh than to cry!

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@ligayagardener · Dec 16 '17

When youve got kids, anything is possible!

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