What a week this has been. As I was coming home from work on Tuesday I saw this bright blue flash coming from behind my apartment building, my first thought was "Who is crazy enough to be lighting fireworks in February". Imagine my surprise when I pull in the driveway and find out that its not fireworks but the Transformer blowing up. It cut power to the building next to ours instantly, and we figured that it would just be a few hours and everything would be taken care of. Flash forward about 20 minutes......there are atleast 6 firetrucks, several cop cars, and 1 truck from Idaho Falls Power. We let them know that there was a horrible humming noise coming from the meters on the back of the building, the guy from the power company, rushed to the back and came back upfront and told us that they were cutting power to our building as well. No biggie we think and that it will be just a little while and everything would be back to normal. After about another 20 minutes we find out that there is lots of heat coming from the walls in our apartment and there is smoke in the apartment as well. They told us that we would have to evacuate for the night, so we went back into the house packed up what we needed for a night away from home and took off to Rigby (thank you Jana!).
I got a phone call Wednesday morning from my landlord letting me know that the grounding wire that runs through our house smoldered and almost caught fire, she needed us to come move all the stuff out of the living room and the kitchen so they could cut into the ceiling and replace the grounding wire. Much thanks to Brooke for keeping an eye on Walker while I rushed back into town to begin moving all of our stuff.
Wednesday was a blur of moving things and watching them rip into the ceiling in several places in the living room, kitchen, pantry, and the closet in our bedroom. We have managed to get most of the stuff back in place, but getting rid of the smoke smell has proven to be impossible, especially since there are still holes in the drywall and the burnt 2x4. Hopefully it wont take too long to get it all repaired and repainted so our lives can go back to some sort of normality.
I am grateful that it wasnt worse than it was, and that my family was safe. There were no major injuries and out of the 8 families that were evacuated no one was hurt. We are very lucky, the 4 families in the other building are still out of thier apartment, a fire broke out there because of the grounding wire as well, but it burnt up into the upstairs apartment, so there is a lot more damage and repairs that need to be done there.
So thats the big news from this Meek family for now....lets hope its not this "exciting" again for awhile.
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