What a story getting to that point though. A couple of months ago we smelt the horrible smell in our garage. We thought it was a dead animal....the smell continued for a couple of days and then it just completely went away. We though nothing more about it and moved on with our lives.
Fast forward to this week, our hallway light and main bathroom light kept going out. Ricky would go flip the circuit breaker on and off and they would come on. Then one night when I was in the middle of taking a shower the lights go out on me. Thankfully we have a nightlight in the bathroom and that was still working so I managed to finish my shower with the nightlight...it was actually kinda relaxing. So the next day I leave for work and as I am walking into the garage I smell that horrible smell again...and think man, what could that be, it smell like some sort of dead rotting animal. I tell Ricky about and we go about our business. That night I was gone to a women's bible study and when I get home Ricky informs me that the smell is coming from our breaker box and it is fried!
Last night we got our neighbor to come and look at it to see if it was something we could fix ourselves. He works for the city changing traffic lights/etc. so he knew what he was doing/looking at. He said he is amazed our house hasn't caught on fire. He basically gave his opinion that it would probably have to be changed out completely to be safe. Or an electrician could do a "quick fix" and we would probably have problems down the road.
So today an electrician came and completely stripe our old breaker box out and we got a brand new one! I'm glad our neighbor told us what we were dealing with because I was more confident in what the electrician was saying and knowing that he wasn't try to cheat us on anything.
In any event....400 dollars later we have a new breaker box, electricity works in our house and I feel much safer! So God is watching out for us! It is totally worth the money knowing that your house is safe!
