Oh It’s One of those Days!

I had a ruff night last night between my allergies and back!  The cold weather has me down in the back and i shouldn’t have gone near that Alley with my allergies and asthma.  I couldn’t sleep between my itching eyes, nose, throat, coughing, labored breathing and my aching back!!  It was almost 5 AM before i finally got some zzz’s.  Then i was awaken around 9 AM by a load noise.  I started complaining and looked out the window to find a dump truck dumping dirt.  After they left i snapped a picture.  Well let’s be honest .. much later in the day i took a picture .. Wow that is a lot of dirt.

Hubby kept complaining he was smelling something electrical burning.  I told him I had used some bleach and that was probably what he was smelling. He kept complaining he thought that what he was smelling wasn’t bleach.  I just brushed it off.  After dinner I went to get the dish soap under the cabinet to do dishes and thought i smelt a strong chemical odor and i went to digging under the cabinet … well all of sudden there was a popping noise and all the lights, TV and everything but our 12 volt lights went off.  Hubby comes out of the bedroom yelling at me.  “What have you done now and what are doing under the sink?  I told him i smelt a horrible strong chemical smell and was digging for the source.  He accused me of touching something under the sink.  Apparently that is where a box called a convertor box is that runs all of electrical.

Ooops it wasn’t bleach or chemicals after all. Hubby went to open the door to check the breakers and he couldn’t touch the door, it burnt him.  After getting something he could use to open the door, to his shock this is what he found.  Yep, he had been smelling electrical burning after all .. OH MY!!

Well of course he isn’t happy and after unplugging us from shore power he went to work on investigating what happened.  Needless to say the breaker i kept popping yesterday with my roaster was the source.  Hmmm I didn’t know you couldn’t run a electrical heater and roaster on the same circuit .. I’m a woman and i know nothing about electrical .. I just use them.  If they come on .. great they work and if they don’t their junk!

Well after lots of turning things on and off we found the source.  The outlets in the kitchen and bathroom are all GFI and i guess that is why my breaker kept blowing.  I had it over loaded.
We found out that my freezer, our refrigerator, the electric heater and my roaster were all running off the 15 AMP breaker … OUCH!  

After several hours of investigating hubby turned that breaker off and the sparks and burning stopped.  Yes, the one wire had sparks and was actually burning.  That is how close we come from having a tragic, horrible nightmare. 

Because i was afraid to go to bed with anything running and it was too late to try and fix it hubby unplugged us from shore power and even shutoff the convertor completely so that meant a night of sleeping with no heat, no nothing.  There isn’t a 110 outlet outside so we couldn’t run a cord through our slide out to use for electric and since the satellite dish is so close to our camper we couldn’t get the generator out to use it.  YES we spent the night with no electric, no 12 volt and NO HEAT!