Getting our wires (un)crossed

I don't think I've mentioned it before in this blog (just in case a reader happens to work for codes), but Tara came with a few...challenges...with her wiring. Nothing is wrong on the inside, I promise, but the wires that run from the meter to the electrical poles are a different story. I bet you've never thought of it, unless you're Rhett, but take a second to go outside and look at the wires that connect your electrical meter to the large poles on the side of your property.

Go ahead- I'll wait.

Ideally, you had to look up to see them, right? And they're so high you couldn't possibly touch them (zap!), right?

Not at Tara.

The pole you see is, shall we say, precariously tilted. In fact it's tilted so much that if you're standing in our backyard you can- if you want to get shocked- reach up and touch the wires. While it's been great fun for the neighborhood kids to toss footballs over the low-hanging wire, it's not quite safe.

While we're putting on a new roof (yep! we decided to move the meter box. Turns out, it's not that difficult. It takes about a day of work from your local electrician (sidenote: when he says "This won't be loud at all" he means it will be ear-splitting).

Voila!

New electrical and everything. Once an inspector comes by, we can hook this puppy up and there will be no more scary wires in front of your face when you're in the backyard!

Looks like I'll have to buy the kiddos a volleyball net.