August 5, 2008 North Sydney, NS Golden Arm RV Park
You may have noted that we moved to a new RV park today.(Within 12 miles from the last one) Here is the reason.
I went to bed last night at around 12 pm. It had continued to rain lightly all day and into the evening and now and then we heard thunder. Terry stays up to watch TV. When I was drifting off to sleep I thought I heard something fall off the bed. You know, a shoe, a jacket or whatever but then I realized I did not have anything on the bed to fall off. Nevertheless, I drifted off to sleep but I could not sleep as I smelled the smoke of electrical wires burning. I wandered out to the living room and told Terry he need to check the back. He wondered why I was interrupting his late night TV but I convinced him SMOKE was a good reason. I quickly dressed in real clothes, as now he has all the bedroom windows open . He trouble shoots the smell and the smoke for 2 hours and I fear the worst, our inverter is fried, our converter is fried, our 50 amp service is gone. Good news, the TV?s and the computers work.
In the morning Terry figured out that the Circuit breaker surge protector had done it?s job. We wonder if lightning had struck something close by and caused a power surge. We asked KOA for a refund for the prepaid night and moseyed on down the road with Jeff and Sue and Russ to the Golden Arms RV Park to catch wi-fi. We watched big rigs get stuck in the grass following this 4th or 5th day of rain. So far I am not impressed with Nova Scotia weather . Terry still wants to try to do the Cabot Trail in the morning.
We opted to eat in tonight while Russ and Jeff and Sue went out to eat. I love my own cooking after eating out so many times.