After our small group tonight the kids were outside playing soccer. They were kicking the soccer ball over the roof to the other side of the house. Guess what happens when a soccer ball hits the power lines to the house?
Power outage for a 2 block section for Minden...
We didn't realize that our house was really the problem until about an hour after it all occurred. Brad decided to go talk to the guys in the bucket truck in our alley to tell them that our kids had hit the line with the ball & saw some sparks. We thought maybe it had been a coincidence.
Well, it wasn't. Evidently our lines weren't insulated so when the ball hit the lines the wires hit each other & voila! Power outage. They came & wrapped our wires & had it fixed in about 5 minutes after we'd told them about the ball.
How much do you think this is going to cost us? Overtime for the NPPD & City workers? I know it was purely accidental, and really we are probably lucky to find out the problems with our wires this way instead of by a fire or something. Maybe this is God's way of protecting us from further damages.
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