Electricity goes crazy!

So I yet again apologize for the lack of blogging lately. Hopefully tomorrow when I get off work I will take pictures of our Christmas decorations and put them up. Needless to say I have been busy working at my real job and stuyding for finals. Last week happened to be a very interesting week at the house. It all started on Saturday night when I noticed the internet connnection had gone out. No big deal I will just call Charter sometime next week and get them to come and look at it. Well I had a final on Wednesday so I waited till tuesday to call Charter and then had them come out on Friday. I didn't want to have to deal with them messing up my study time. Wednesday night I had gone out with some friends and when I got home Rob stated that all of the lights had been flickering in the house. So he turned all the lights out except for the room he was in. I stated that it was really windy outside so maybe that had something to do with it. Well the next morning, I went to start the dryer and all the house dimmed when I attempted to start it. Big clue that this wasn't good. Charter arrived and stated that my cable internet cord looked burned. Like electrically burned. Not good! Then he went outside and he said sparks were coming out of there connection outside. Yet again not good! Sparks don't come out of cable internet.The supervisor for Charter came out and looked at it and said that he would turn off all the power in the house because some how I had lost my ground wire connection. Basically, saying my house was one big electrical charge. At the time I happened to be alone at the house. And of course freaked out! To make a long story short Alabama power ended up coming out and fixing everything our ground wire was completely broken. Everything is fixed now and working better than it had been. Oh the joy of owning a house! But it is totally worth it. Hopefully, I will get a new camera for Christmas so I will be able to post more pictures!