Well we had quite a scare this week. · 8:23am May 4th, 2018
Hello, my lovely followers and others who read!
As for the title of this blog, my family and I had quite the scare this week (and strange/weird experience as well. Been a very eventful week!) 'Sadly' most of it happened while I was at work but still made me nervous/little spooked when I got home.
First, our car alarm went off so my brother went to check it out. Didn't see anything outside but as he was getting ready to go back in he spotted this man in a hat with a marijuana leaf on it. He came up to my brother and asked for a white sock. (He didn't know what the hay he meant, but he looked it up and turns out that is how people ask for cocaine...) the guy then continued to ask him for other types of drugs including marijuana. After finally realizing we didn't have any he left. Still really freaked us all out though. (According to my brother, he thinks one of our neighbors sells drugs and the guy got the wrong house.)
That was only a tiny thing compared to the next though. We had a good steady rain all day (which I was super grateful for! This Ling has been suffering from allergies and the rain helped with that.) Anyway, one of our outdoor electrical outlets leaked and shorted out, causing us to lose power in half the house and filling the air with electrical smoke. Thankfully, miraculously, it didn't start an actual fire and burn the place down! We didn't know how lucky we were though until today when an electrician friend of ours came to fix the wiring and such.
Once he got down in there, the damage was pretty bad. The electrical socket was completely melted and had burned the wood around it a little. The short had traveled up the wire and shorted out again just above one of our windows, which is where the smoke had escaped from. He told us not only were we lucky there was so much moisture in the air, because it was sucked into the crack the smoke came out of and stopped the fire before it could even really start, but if it had happened just one inch further to the side, it would have hit the insulation and we would have likely lost everything.
(We did at least give the firemen some good training. It happened to happen on a night they were training some new ones, and when my parents called them to help they brought two of the big fire trucks and two of the smaller ones, with probably around 15 firemen. They checked the house for hotspots to make sure things were okay and got in a good training session. Heh, my mother was even joking that she wished my cousin and I had been there (both young single females, we were both at work during all this) as many of them were cute and single, lol.)
So yeah, we were without power in half the house for just under 24hrs and almost lost everything. We were very, very lucky aaaand yeah. *cough* I just don't do enough more personal blogs I feel aaaand wanted to tell you guys the crazy week we had. 
Geez! Oh wow! Be safe!
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Should hopefully not happen again. The new electrical socket we have now is much more waterproof than the old one so *crosses hooves*.
*hugs* Will do my best!
Dang, electrical fires are harder to put out than normal fires. Be safe.
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I shall do my best!
*nods* That is what I've been told. We were super lucky with that. *shudders* Don't know what I would do if I lost everything...
Almost lost everything, damn!
Glad to hear the problem is fix. The guy who came to buy drugs in ur house was funny, I know it doesn't sound like that in ur end... But it kinda does when u r about to tell it. Be safe!
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*hugs* Yeah was a scary thing! I know many don't believe in miracles but not sure how else to explain it. (Well besides us being very very lucky... but I know my luck is not usually that good.) But yeah all should be well now!
Heh oh no I agree, it is kind of funny, scary at the same time of course but also funny. (The drug guy that is.)
I shall do my best! This ling isn't ready to die, not yet. Then I'd leave you all hanging so horribly!
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Be especially careful about the drug dude.
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*nods* Will do! Haven't seen him again, but doesn't mean he won't appear. Should probably buy some mace/pepper spray to be safe though. (Or carry a baseball bat. Don't think that will fit in my work locker though...)