I must admit it was frightening for a while. I was in the small bedroom of my apartment watching TV. The rest of the apartment was dark. I heard thunder rolling in and suddenly a fierce clap of thunder and lightning had me nearly jumping out of bed and then everything was pitch black in my room. The TV quit and my laptop died too. I thought both were destroyed by a power surge.
I went fumbling in the dark for a flashlight. I couldn’t remember where I kept a flashlight in the bedroom, but I knew there was one in the other closet of the master bedroom. I headed in that direction, moving slowly with arms out to keep me from falling. Once in the closet, I was trying to find the flashlight in total darkness. I reached around for the light switch, not thinking it would turn on the light in the closet, but it did. I checked other lights in the apartment and they all worked. That told me that the problem was only in my small bedroom, but that didn’t make sense because both bedrooms should have been on the same circuit breaker.
I went to the main electric panel with my flashlight and scanned for a tripped circuit breaker. I found it. That one breaker was only connected to my small bedroom and nothing else. I’ve seen and done a lot of electrical work in different places I’ve lived, but never saw an entire breaker for a single room.
With hope and a prayer, I reset the breaker and wondered if the TV and laptop weren’t fried during the power surge? All’s well that ends well and it went well with the TV and Laptop. I was a happy camper.
