A few days ago, Lonnie was at his desk and I was upstairs doing something. As I passed by the stairwell, I smelled a burning odor and I walked down to see smoke streaming from an outlet that Lonnie had his ipad charger plugged into.
He was on the phone and hadn't noticed it.
I squealed out, "Lonnieeee, LOOK!" and headed to the basement to shut off the breaker.
Before I got down the steps he had pulled out the plug and apologized to the person on the phone and finished his conversation.
That did it - the burning stopped.
Pretty scary though. many times we leave devices charging overnight or even when we aren't home.
That's all the damage there was and the Sasquatch put in a new outlet for us.
I have to laugh at this photo, though.
The top of the burned outlet looks like a scared face with his mouth in an "O", and the bottom one has a serious frown because of his injury.
Am I the only one who sees this? Maybe too much smoke inhaled!
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