Smoking in the rain

The other day whilst at rads, we get a call from Thing One, who sends video of an outdoor outlet smoking in the rain. Yes, you read that correctly. 

"Um, that's not supposed to be smoking, right?"

Good thing a certain someone was heading out to pick up pizza or else we'd never have known. It was an outlet we use rarely for outdoor Christmas lights around trees in the front yard. It's almost always off but our furnace guy had come for a tune up and we think he probably flipped it on accident. There was so much impacted debris from insects and/or critters that something lit or sparked or who knows what. 

A friend of ours kindly dropped what he was doing to check it out for us and deemed it not a safety threat as everything was once again off. Sadly, it looks like more than just the outlet itself will need to be replaced and that's a job for another day. 

So there's your PSA for today: be sure to check your outdoor outlets for Shenanigans!