OK, here's another one from the 'old bastard' perspective. IIRC, in the mid/late seventies, Hawaii IAEI folks were having a big problem enforcing the new outside GFCI mandate. It had been the long-standing custom there to locate washing machines out on the covered back porch. They found that washers could not go through a cycle without tripping the GFCI, apparently by EMI from the water solenoid. They rightfully took the NEC quite seriously, and were pretty frazzled over it.
