Well...back home from work...so i can give more details!!!!
We were in the living room last nite watching the storm lots of wild lightning!...had a few good ones off in the distance...but all of a sudden ..Blam-oooooooooh!!!!....and the flash was at the same time!...
I thought it hit at the School across the street.....then the youngest boy comes upstairs and says he "felt that one!" Come to find out that he had his wrist on the edge of a Kitchen table we have down there, which has a metal facia on ,playin a game on his computer. he said then his screen on the computer went blank for a few secondsand camo back on. While he is telling us about the 'hit' he took, I noticed the screen on my TV in the living room was all purple. I turned it on and off a few times and everything was hunkey Dorie! and went about our business watching the storm. them the oldest boy ,who was watching TV in his room in the basement sais his TV picture was all messed up too...so I tried turning it on &off a few times but it never cleared up.
A half hour later I came online ,to the chat room, to tell the guys what had happened ...and I had no sound of the posts in the room...so i tried to turn up my HK 695 Speakers i use on my computer with no luck...you can just barley hear a sound when you put a speaker up to your ear. so those are junk now...damn...I liked that little system too...great sound for the small size .
Well I went to bed and thought nothing about anything else being messed up.
The next morning...(this morning) I was out on the back deck, checking the pool temperature, and saw a chunk of tree bark laying there. So I went out front ( thats where I thought the strike was the night before) and looked around...Nothing!. A little while later , when going out to the work truck I noticed a big chunk of a shingle laying beside the truck...I picked it up and looked around at the roofs to see where it might have came from.... Again...nothing.. So as I was looking around more ...I saw a light streak running down my Big ole Pine tree in the back yard ..next to the garage...So i went out to see it closer... and shure enough thats where the lightning hit the nite before. I also noticed more shingles laying around..so i walked to the side of the garage and said to myself...I said "self! you better go inside and check out if anything happened in there ... shure enough...in the back corner there it was ...a gaping hole about 8-10 inches in diameter and chunchs of wood blasted all over the back of my '66 Merc thats stored in there. There is also a 'straw' sized piece of wood stuck into the concrete floor on an angle.
Now I just have to wait for the insurance adjuster to come have a 'look-see'.
I also found out my Replay TV unit internal phone modem doesn't work anymore either...cuz as long as it is hooked up to the phone line...my phones dont work. So I guess that is a casualty also....
now the game begins with the insurance company..... wish me luck!..
