Kiln Gone Wild

I had been working on a new jewelry blank the past few months. I believe I started it around the 1st of November and have been slowing working on it since then. It started out sortof rough. After I made the components, I stacked the pile of glass as high as I usually do - almost 2 inches. Guess that was a little high as it broke in the firing. But I was able to press on and it wasn't a big deal as I was going to cut it up anyway.
It was super thick, a little more than 1/2"

here's a fun closeup. It had lots of depth and detail.
I thinned it out, cut it, shaped it, re-fired, shaped some more, sandblasted, and put it in for the final firing. I went to the studio tonight to pick the final pieces up and found out the kiln had gone wild and BOILED my pieces which totally ruined them. The kiln relay had gotten stuck in the on position so it didn't turn off and went to about 2400 degrees, about a 1000 too high for the firing. It's hard to tell from the picture how wrong it went. They totally flattened out and the bubbles in the glass floated to the top. The two pieces with the clear in the middle WERE donut pieces with a large hole in the middle. Not any more. Sadly because the glass boiled it is now unstable and can't be melted down and put into something else. This is pretty much the only time you just have to throw the glass out. Bummer. The good news is I only lost about half the jewelry blank. I hadn't started in the yellow and red side of the piece and still have a few small pieces of the purple side.