BGE Gasket Melted My Egg Lid Shut!!!

Yeah, I'm cooking some ribeyes for my Dads birthday Trex style when it happened. I noticed when I went to pull the steaks off after the intial 90 per side cook the gasket was melted and looked like stringy black silocone.I was like WTF? I've heard of gaskets melting, but not like this. So I shut the lid and shut it down to try to get it down to 400* so I can finish cooking the steaks. After 20 minutes I go outside to check the temp and add some smoke wood. I try to open the lid and it's glued shut! I yanked the F'r, but it wouldn't budge. Embarrased, I had to finish the steaks on my Dads gasser! The steaks still were pretty good, but not the same. So now I have to figure out how to get the lid up on this bastige. I'm hoping that tomorrow, by chance the lid will open. If not what do you guys think I should do to try to get it open? Or should I contact BGE and see what they say? My plan as of right now is the see if I can get a razor blade in and cut away enough gasket so I can get a hack saw blade in there. What ya guys think? Thanks in advance.

Thanks guys, I'm going to go pick it up later and try to get it open. I'll keep you posted.

Well, I just got my egg home and busted the lid loose by using a putty knive. I only had to clear about an inch and a half before the lid opened. The gasket is obviously wasted. I'm going to replace it with a rutland as described by Naked Whiz. Anyone have a good online source for the gasket kit?

Bootleg, my egg is about 9 months old, but has seen many high heat cooks.