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When the lights finally flicker back after an outage, the instinct is to rush to the panel and flip everything on. That ...

Circuit breakers can be frustrating. You're happily bopping through your day, perhaps craving an English Muffin, so you decide to plug a toaster oven into the outlet where your refrigerator is plugged ...