7/29 - Why We Still Don't Have A Range That Works
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If you recall, we had a little lightning hit the power lines near our house a week and a half ago, and since then we've been finding weird little things that don't work in and around the palacial St. John/Kelly estate. Like the coffee maker. Gone. The main circuit board on the furnace/central air unit. Fried. And the flex capacitor (or whatever it's called) on the gas range/oven that, while still allowing the clock/timer to work, won't actually send enough voltage to the burners to ignite them when you turn the switch to 'light'. (Oh, the range still works... kind of. You can still light the stovetop burners using a match or candle-lighter, like you'd light a gas grill when the ignitor button doesn't work, but the repair guy said we probably shouldn't try that with the oven. At least the Weber grills outside still work, or we'd probably be starving right now...)
I guess when you consider the average lightening bolt can reach temperatures of nearly 30,000 degrees, (or so Wikipedia says, anyway), it's not surprising THIS is what the line near our house looked like when it was hit...
That's not actually the power line near our house, seeing as lighning hit our phone line, not the power line (or who know's what ELSE wouldn't be working right now) but it sure does give one an appreciation of the power good 'ol Mother Nature can give ya, doesn't it? (That'd be the power of filing a claim on your homeowners policy...) |
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