Note: These pictures are just cool shots I took at the park this week. AJ grabbed my hand and pulled me over to a branch that had some pretty cool “carvings” on it. I told him they weren’t carvings, but we did have fun contemplating what they could be (like alien markings!).
But that is not the story I want to tell.
On Wednesday afternoon, I started a load of laundry in the dryer (sound familiar, much?). A little later that night, I sent KitKat down to do some of her laundry.
Before I headed to bed, I checked the laundry and noticed that the dryer was running. I figured that it was one of Kitkat’s loads and went to bed.
The next morning, I was trying to rest for a few more minutes before the 6:30 kid wake-up time, and I had an odd prompting to do another load of laundry. Really, I was motivated by a desire to avoid a tantrum later on by a certain someone who needed clean pants…). As I walked down the stairs, I heard a horrifying noise.
My dryer.
It was still running.
My quick estimate (as I rushed to turn it off) was that the dryer had been running for approximately 14 hours. I opened the door and almost burned my hands.
The clothes inside were too hot to handle with my bare hands, but I got everything out and left the door open to cool it off.
The lint container was overloaded.
I walked away, shaking, realizing how easy it would have been for a fire to start in my basement while we were sleeping. The fire would have gotten quite large before it woke any of us up, sleeping two floors above.
It’s a miracle that it didn’t start a fire. It’s a miracle that we’re all safe, and that my house is still standing.
God was watching over us. He always is.
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Oh my goodness! scary! glad your were watched over!
Whoa, that was scary. Glad everything is okay.
Cool photos.
Oh, how scary. I’m so glad you went down there and you caught it. And, so thankful that there wasn’t anything damaged.
That is seriously scary! So glad everything was ok!
Oh my goodness! That is so scary! Thank God you noticed when you did!
Thank goodness everything is okay! How scary!!
Whoa. That really could’ve been bad! So glad it didn’t catch on fire!
holy cow! How scary!
Thank God you’re all ok. (literally thanking God)