What amazes me about Ka-incidence is not that it happens but that it happens frequently. Things like the following can in fact be expected to happen...
A couple months ago I had the basement waterproofed. At a certain point the lead worker came upstairs to tell me their machines had thrown a breaker, that they no longer had power, and asked if they could run an extension cord from upstairs. Further he said something about the central air conditioner breaker; that he thought that one had been destroyed. The waterproofers went on to complete the job, part of which involved working in the crawl space around the air conditioner.
Afterward I noticed that my tankless water heater was not working. I bought and installed a new breaker for the AC, hoping that the tankless water heater shared it - that that breaker was the water heater's problem, also. It wasn't.
I called an electrician to look at the water heater, expecting him to narrow down which breaker(s) needed to be replaced. He discovered that the water heater was not connected to a breaker at all; had years ago somehow instead been very incorrectly hooked up to the AC, and that that connection needed to be changed to include a breaker. So he fixed that.
Not long after that it was finally hot enough in GA for my cheap a$$ to decide to turn on the AC. It didn't come on. I wasn't sure who to call, so called the electrician, and then the waterproofers, scheduling appointments. A whole 24 hrs later I realized that if the AC guy came here he could fix the AC as well as tell me if someone damaged it, so scheduled an appointment with him. He found out what was wrong with the AC.
Here's where the Ka-incidence, and my original point (thanx for reading thus far), comes in: the problem with the AC had not been due to either the waterproofers - despite the worker's mentioning the AC breaker - nor the electrician - despite the water heater's incorrect AC hookup. The AC problem was a fuse associated with the furnace; a fuse which finally quit because it was just plain 30 years old.
This is just one example of such ka-incidental madness - with machines or electronics, in this case - which I've personally experienced. I can't think of any others right now; don't want to.
Now, I know people will decide that what happened was because everything in the basement's electrical system is connected somehow, and so the waterproofers blew the furnace fuse. I say there's a demon in my basement, and that there may be others in other areas of my life. No wonder I don't want to remember other ka-incidences right now.
A couple months ago I had the basement waterproofed. At a certain point the lead worker came upstairs to tell me their machines had thrown a breaker, that they no longer had power, and asked if they could run an extension cord from upstairs. Further he said something about the central air conditioner breaker; that he thought that one had been destroyed. The waterproofers went on to complete the job, part of which involved working in the crawl space around the air conditioner.
Afterward I noticed that my tankless water heater was not working. I bought and installed a new breaker for the AC, hoping that the tankless water heater shared it - that that breaker was the water heater's problem, also. It wasn't.
I called an electrician to look at the water heater, expecting him to narrow down which breaker(s) needed to be replaced. He discovered that the water heater was not connected to a breaker at all; had years ago somehow instead been very incorrectly hooked up to the AC, and that that connection needed to be changed to include a breaker. So he fixed that.
Not long after that it was finally hot enough in GA for my cheap a$$ to decide to turn on the AC. It didn't come on. I wasn't sure who to call, so called the electrician, and then the waterproofers, scheduling appointments. A whole 24 hrs later I realized that if the AC guy came here he could fix the AC as well as tell me if someone damaged it, so scheduled an appointment with him. He found out what was wrong with the AC.
Here's where the Ka-incidence, and my original point (thanx for reading thus far), comes in: the problem with the AC had not been due to either the waterproofers - despite the worker's mentioning the AC breaker - nor the electrician - despite the water heater's incorrect AC hookup. The AC problem was a fuse associated with the furnace; a fuse which finally quit because it was just plain 30 years old.
This is just one example of such ka-incidental madness - with machines or electronics, in this case - which I've personally experienced. I can't think of any others right now; don't want to.
Now, I know people will decide that what happened was because everything in the basement's electrical system is connected somehow, and so the waterproofers blew the furnace fuse. I say there's a demon in my basement, and that there may be others in other areas of my life. No wonder I don't want to remember other ka-incidences right now.
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