Lightening

Last week there was a ligthening strike near or at our home. When we got home the computer wasn't working. Yikes, no internet. What, no DirecTV either! We picked up the phone and realized there was no dial tone. What's going on here. While I asked our neighbor if there had been a storm, which she confirmed and said it was the scariest thunder she'd ever heard, Daddy checked around the house and found that the phone box attached to the house had blown up. Seriously, there were parts in the neighbors yard.

I called Verizon on my cell and they were able to come out the next day to fix it since Bug's allergies are something we should be able to reliably call 911 from a landline. The gentleman who fixed the box said he'd never seen anything like it and that we were lucky the house didn't burn down. He fixed that and got the internet up and running again. Whew!

DirecTV came a couple of days later and fixed that and we got 2 new remotes, woo hoo!

Not being an expert in lightening or electronics, I have been wondering if anything else would suffer as a result of the storm. Looks like the modem is dead. Verizon is sending us a new one. No internet again, bummer.

So for now, I can't update the blog with pictures. It'll be a couple of weeks before I get pictures up, but there will be some great updates from my phone over the next week.

Some of the teaser topics include, Lobstah, Pre-school Graduation, the boys being crazy and oh Maine!!!

The moral of the lightening story is that when we fixed all of the electrical in the house last year, we added a whole house surge protector.....worth every penny!