Three Strikes

Did you miss me? I've been gone.

I've been out in the back yard doing primal scream therapy. I've had it. We were struck by lightning for the THIRD time this summer on Monday. This time was the worst. Not only did we lose our phone service, Internet and cable TV, but the lightning fried our well and two televisions.

This afternoon the well and all else (except for the dead TVs) were fixed. This is beginning to make me really cranky.

I was washing a tomato when it struck one of our TVs. Yes, I know better than to have my hands in running water in a lightning storm, but when you have a lightning storm every single afternoon during the cooking-dinner hour, you start to get slack. Fortunately, my hand was not in the water at that moment, but when the lightning blew out the TV in the kitchen and I heard the breakers go I did what all sane people would do. I screamed and tossed my tomato, which splatted on the floor.

When I realized that I was still here and the tomato needing cleaning up, I was grateful that I wasn't dead but was rattled. (I don't really think I was close to being hit but I was standing without three feet of the fried, turned-off TV and it made quite an impressive BANG-YOU'RE-DEAD sound.)

I'm glad none of us were hurt, the house didn't catch fire and that the horses weren't struck. I'm trying to hold onto that thought instead of....

Why do we have insurance if we can't file a claim?
(If we file a claim we lose our "no claims" discount.)

Anyway. When it gets right down to it, I've discovered that running water is even more important to me than the Internet and the telephone.

Even if said water is so full of Clorox (they shocked the well after putting the new pump in) that the whole house smells like a laundromat and we're buying bottled water even for the cat and I'm only washing whites.... And of course the hose is running in the yard, trying to run all that Clorox out.

So what this all means is that I'm back. At least until struck again.

Comments

[Chris]

We're glad you're all okay!
Sounds like you've one-upped me on my earthquake, too!

[groovyoldlady]

Good heavens, Anne! I'm so sorry.

I'm still dealing with the fallout from our ONE strike...I can't even imagine the headaches you're having! We didn't file a claim because we have a $1,000 deductable and, since my computer was fixed under warranty, we only had about $400 in losses.

Anyhoo, glad you're not dead, fried or burned up!!!

[Nancy]

Where are you? I miss your blogs!