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I'm not sure what the heck the problem is, but if there's anyone that might be able to give me an idea, I need to try to get this crap fixed...

I wired up a ton of Christmas lights the last few days.

The plugs for all the fronts come up to one standard double plugged exterior outlet. The plugs for the back of the house do the same....one standard exterior double plug.

It rained last night and I tried plugging in the outside lights.

I saw a quick flicker on the front lights and they went out. The exterior plug doesn't work for some reason. I plug them in inside the house and voila....they work.

I go to the back of the house. I do the same and plug them in. Not working. I run the plugs to an interior outlet and they work fine.

WTF.

I check the breaker box. All the switches are on....working fine. Nothing has been tripped. So, I turn all the switches off and back on just for the heck of it. They still don't work.

I try plugging them in again tonight outside. Nothing.

This happened a while back with the rear exterior plug and it didn't work for about 4 months...then suddenly, one day, it worked. Now it's not working again.

Any ideas?

Can the plug itself "short out?" or have some sort of problem maybe due to the wet weather? they are the sealable exterior plugs, so no water should have gotten into them....I'd think.

I'm ready to buy one exterior plug and replace it just to see what happens. If that's all it needs, then cool. But.....not sure....

Has this ever happened to anyone else?