Close Call

Last Saturday night we were heading out the door for the evening when we smelled something burning. We searched the laundry room where the smell was coming from. At first we thought it was the dryer that was on but the smell was not coming from there. Then we noticed the smoldering bubbling melting outlet! Take a look at these pictures. If we hadn't discovered this who knows what could have happened. The crazy thing is that nothing was even plugged into it. We called our electrician ( not the one that wired the house) and figured out that the screws were not tightened down enough. The dryer runs off the same circuit so that is what was feeding it. I am just so thankful that we noticed it in time. That would not have made for a very good Mothers day.