I'm in mourning...

See my lovely dryer? Well, when I came home from work yesterday, Kevin informed me that our dryer was burned out! I'm so sad! This is what happened--on Sunday, after raining for several hours, our lights were dimming and then going bright. Kevin got out his voltmeter and measured the voltage, finding that it was too high. When I turned on the microwave it would fluctuate (the voltage). He tried everything he could think of to find the problem but couldn't. Yesterday morning I started a load of laundry--it filled but couldn't complete the cycle. I called Kevin on the phone and he said not to worry that he would find the problem. So my clothes sat in the filled washer all day. When I got home, the washer was going---that's when Kevin told me about the ground wire rubbing against an insulated wire that leads into our house and the insulation had come off. Also, our converter box for our bedroom tv burned out. I saw it! It made a pop and then smoke came out of it. That's when I unplugged both the tv and the box.

Our bathroom turned into a drying room. Its not too warm here today so these clothes may take awhile to dry. So, I'm mourning the death of my favorite appliance :(