We've been having a lot of power surges lately due to weather but we come home one night and find our AC unit not working. Later on my wife finds out a drunk driver hit a power pole (transformer? idk) which caused this particular surge and it ended up frying a component ($750) in our AC unit. Talking to our neighbors, it seems it fried the same component in everyone's AC unit. We live in a new development so there's only 10 of us on the street right now, we moved in less than 3 months ago so we're not to thrilled about this.
We already contacted our home owners insurance and they'd cover it for a $1000 deductible, so it wouldn't make sense to do that. AC unit warranty specifically says environmental causes aren't claimable.
I asked for an accident report from the highway patrol and plan on going after the driver's insurance but i'm not sure how that will pan out. Kind of at a loss on what to do now, am I just out $750?
Submitted June 13, 2018 at 07:44PM by Revosk https://ift.tt/2sVx81n