July 4th celebrations destroyed my AC unit.
My family loves celebrating the 4th of July.
Last year has caused me to rethink how we will celebrate this year.
Normally, we would have both ground fireworks and sky fireworks. We try to be very careful. We keep the children at a distance. Littler kids have hearing protection. We don’t shoot the fireworks off toward the trees. My husband hoses down our house so we don’t set our home on fire. Yes, we really set our home on fire one year, but it only burnt a few shingles. I wish he had thought about the air conditioning unit last year. It was a fluke firework that went sideways instead of straight up. Now that I think about it, no one could have predicted that the firework could go into the AC unit. Even now that I think back, I’m not sure how it happened. Instead of the firework shooting straight up in the air, it flew sideways across the yard, and went right into the AC unit. We watched the sparks flying from the air vents. It would have been pretty if we weren’t all horrified. Sparks flew up into the air and hit the eaves of the house. We could hear the popping and boom inside the air conditioner and then our lights went out. The huge surge somehow tripped the main breaker. Our home insurance wouldn’t pay for the damage to the house, or to replace the air conditioner. Luckily, the HVAC company gave us time to pay for the new air conditioning unit, but the house damage was still on us.