If its not one thing its another

Last night the power went out about 2AM. No big deal its been happening with all the RECO company stuff going on around here.

Strangely enough the power was still out when I went to work at 8AM. I got to work and we called the power company and they told me noon and my buddy 10AM so we figured play it safe and picked the noon time. Against my better judgment I did not go to the beach to relax and instead went to the Roatan Life Office at the Anthonys Key Resort. AKR has there own generator for the whole resort so they do not lose power.

I spent my morning checking email and swapping gossip with the staff at that office. When I left to go home for lunch the power was still out, but as I was pulling up to the house the power came on.

My neighbor across the street built a 6 unit building and I noticed that the area around his electric meter installation and incoming power was smoking and I saw flames. I stopped my car (away from the flames) and ran into my generator room and grabbed a fire extinguisher. I then put out the fire (my first time using an extinguisher) and noticed how the fire had started in the area by the meter and had melted an a big pipe and a breaker box.

I sent my Gardner up to the building to tell someone and eventually a local man and the girlfriend of the owner came down. She is a girl from the mainland of questionable character (that is another story and good island gossip) and when we explained what happened, showed her the damage and implored her to call her man so he could come home and fix this issue. She shrugged her shoulders and walked off.

Well eventually the man did come home (she had not bothered to call) and I went and talked to Gary (retired guy from Texas down here living the dream). I showed him the damage explained the story and then we figured they had used too small of a wire on the breaker and it must have melted and caught fire instead during the extra heavy surge we got when the power came on. Since the melt and fire happened before the breaker it never tripped the switch.

After thanking me a few times Gary then turned looked up at the sky and muttered Roatan if its not one thing its another.