Explosion!!

We had an exciting power experience on Friday....it was right before we left on our trip. I was sitting with the kids...they were watching a movie, and I was reading (The Host...oh so good!), when I noticed the power doing something funny. The transformer started going on and off really fast and I could hear a buzzing sound. After a few seconds of that, I heard a POP and started to smell electrical smoke. I wondered what it could be...and looked around and noticed that Andrew was missing! I jumped up and yelled to Pascaline if she knew where Andrew was, and we both started running all over the house looking for him and yelling. The only thing I could think of was that Andrew had stuck something in one of the light sockets and he was dead! I was out of my mind with worry! After a few minutes of running and searching and screaming, my legs actually started to lose feeling...it was really strange! We couldn't figure out where the smoke and fire smell was coming from. But finally, Pascaline found Andrew in the playroom happily reading books to himself, and we discovered that the outlet where our water distiller was plugged into had internally exploded, and the whole thing was melted! Whew! The stove and the fridge went out, too. I was shaking like crazy and so happy to have Andrew back ok that I didn't even care that we wouldn't have water for awhile!! Talk about a power surge! I wish I would have taken a picture of what it looked like after it had melted. creepy! There are still black scorch marks on the wall where the outlet was...but they moved it, so now the outlet is at a different spot. I suppose that was just a little taste of their wonderful power here. I'm just always so grateful that if we ever have problems like this, there are people we can call 24/7 and they come almost immediately to fix it for free! What a blessing! And what a blessing that nothing caught fire! Especially in that room, since that's where I keep all the cleaners!!!!