Silenced By A Storm
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
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Didja miss me? No, I wasn’t on vacation - at least not voluntarily.
We’ve had a long run of thunderstorms, some pretty massive, in our area over the past 2 - 3 weeks. A baaaad ‘jamma came through the last weekend of June with incredible lightning and with one horrible strike fried my trusty computer (aaarrgh!) and two TVs, short-circuited my fridge, killed the phone service, took out the attic exhaust fan (dang, it’s hot here) and all but blasted the sprinkler control panel off the basement wall. Frankly, it’s a miracle that my house didn’t burn down. I’m still finding fried outlets around here. Some houses in the area have burned down in these storms - but for grace, there go I.
So while slowly getting things fixed (it took three days to get the phones back and they’re still not right) between more storms, I’ve had to patiently shop around for a tech bargain to get back online. I finally found a great laptop which now allows me to work anywhere in the house or outside (yay!) in the hammock on my wireless connection. I was extremely fortunate that my old hard drive was spared damage. I had it remade into an external drive with all my data intact. I’m now back to blogging. Talk soon.
