Time: 4am 27th june.
Place: in bed at my place.
Ok, so I'm in bed asleep dreaming about jupiter etc & I wake up 'cos I'm really hot. Yep went to sleep with the electric blanket on flat-out, I'm sure everyones done it yes? I reach for the switch & turn it down & try to get back to sleep. Before too much longer I realize I'm getting hotter...not cooler ? I'm on the verge of falling asleep again when I start to notice strange flashing lights (I've got my eyes closed of course) & I'm thinking "oh, must be a lightning storm going on outside..but wots that got to do with me getting hotter ??"
I open my eyes, & the whole bedroom is lit up with this weird light flashing off & on rapidly like a strobe light! what the....!!?!??
I spring outa bed, hitting the carpet in a crouch thinking "ok, I'm being abducted by aliens...!!"
2 seconds later I smell something burning, 2 seconds after that the smoke alarm go's off in the room next door
& asi is crapping himself!
The flashing lights stop. It's pitch black & I see nothing, with this damn smoke alarm deafening me with the stench of something burning getting stronger. I hit the light switch, I see nothing burning. I'm now thinking "electrical appliance" I'm scanning the room looking for all electrical appliances in the room. Alarm clock ? Battery operated! Bedside lamp ? Don't own one! That leaves only one thing...the electric bloody blanket !
I'm looking at the cord & the switch etc & I gingerely touch it....feels warm. I flick back the blankets & sheets to reveal the connection where the power cord attaches to the actual blanket....its hot!! I go to reach for the switch on the power point but this connection I'm staring at starts to melt.
I grab the electric blanket & rip it off the bed in a frenzy ripping the cord out of the wall in the process & march to the frontdoor & throw the rotten thing out the door where it still sits.
Geez!
What would have happened had I been asleep? I'm in an old house with old fuses in the fuse box. Why didn't the damn fuse blow before this connection started to fry??
How was your night?
