my house was struck by lightning this past sunday, so I decided I should by a powerball ticket. Im pretty sure that makes my odds of winning a bit higher somehow.

The story goes like this. We had just returned home from a trip to NJ to go to a wedding of a friend of my husbands. I signed on line, checked my email and heard a rumble of thunder, checked weather.com and they said scattered strong thunderstorms were coming through, no red banner like they do for major storms no orange one for mediocre storms. I shut down my computer anyway like I would if it were a major one, just in case. Hubby is watching tv, I go upstairs to open some windows. It was a very hot evening and i figure the storm blowing in would cool the house off nicely. I opened the living room window, felt a nice breeze, there was some lightning, nothing that big or scary, I walk up the stairs to open the bedroom window and when i reach the top step BOOM CRACK and a bit of a shock (like static) surged through me. The alarm clock radio started playing on its own, and all the numbers on it started rolling aroun and changing. I thought I might be traveling through time and chuckled to myself at the thought. I shut off the radio.. opened the window. lol.. then went back downstairs an my husband asked me if I was allright. 'yea Im fine' the storm passes, and my husband and I go sit on the front porch because it had cooled off quite a bit after the storm. Then our neighbor, whom we don't know, from across the street comes over and says, did you know your house was struck by lightning? 'NO! we idnt know that' go out to the street and look at the house and their is a huge hole in the chimney, walk around to the backyard to look at the house from there andthe hole is even larger. pieces of brick are everywhere. Back inside we start checking things. some breakers tripped but electrically we were fine, then we started checking other things and thats when we found out all the rest. I wrote the next paragraph before this one, lol, and I don't feel like editing it to make sense now with this addition, but there is new info in it rest assured and read on.

The lightning directly struck my chimney, which wouldn't be so bad aside from a big f'n hole in my chimney, it would be ok. Unfortunately my cable line was attached to the chimney, somehow it was fine but the surge of energy from the lightning strike traveled straight through that cable wire and basically broke anything that was attached to it. The cable box, a dvd player, a modem, a router, my husband's playstation, his computer, and worst of all mine. I say worst of all mine because I use mine for work everyday, hubbies is there as a last resort for emailing and such when I am too busy with work. It entirely sucks. I am writing this on a very old mac computer that we had in our attic that we hooked up just for checking email and going on line, but it has a hard time even with that. Both of our computers are at a shop right now I have no news on when they might be fixed or if they can be fixed.

I will post some pictures as soon as I get my computer back whenever that might be.