A large boxing match was on TV that night! My husband and I had several of our friends over to watch, since both of us are all big fans of the sport, and the event occurred on a weekend.
Everyone had brought a different dish or drink to be shared with everyone else to our get-together, and we decided to go around buffet style to try everything, and somehow, we ended up a few hours later with no more food, but countless bottles of booze that my good friend Spence had brought from his bar! We just piled the boxes in the garage by the gas furnace for the time being, as they were taking up loads of room.
Unfortunately, the gas furnace decided that evening would be a good one to get a sock stuck within its exhaust pump, which caused a medium sized explosion! Once the gas furnace went up, it ignited all the wooden booze boxes that Spence had brought, creating a massive fire in our garage! Thank goodness my husband is a firefighter, and quickly extinguished the gas furnace fire, and made sure to check all of the heating vents in our home afterwards. Of course this meant that we needed to replace our gas furnace and some ducts that had been blown out with a new one! I felt this was a big challenge until we decided to go in person to our local HVAC retail store, where we were able to talk with an HVAC worker about our different options, and pricing. Somehow insurance was able to pay for almost 98% of our new gas furnace, which our HVAC business kindly installed. So now everything is running smoothly, and our next event will not be interrupted by a random explosion.