It had been storming all night—lots of thunder and lightning—with some being extremely loud (close). Then about 6:20am I was awoken by THE. LOUDEST. NOISE. I’ve ever heard in my LIFE. It literally jolted me out of bed and instantly set my heart racing. Obviously it was a bolt of lightning but I didn’t think much about it other than Wow, that must have been pretty close. I knew Katie would be in our room pretty quickly so waited for her. Yep, within a minute. So while we were cuddling (and I was trying to fall back to sleep), Owen came up to ask if we’d looked outside. Well, no…I was in bed. He excitedly said we had to look at the tree. So I got up and looked out our second-story window and…
Well then. That would certainly explain the super loud crazy lightning strike we heard! YIKES!
Then Tom came up and we ooohed and aaahed and then we thought “Hmmm. Maybe we should check our electronics.”
Yeah. Most everything in the living room was dead. The amazing 55″ Pioneer plasma TV that Dad and Lin had handed down to us nine years ago (that they don’t make anymore). The 2-year-old Yamaha receiver. The lifetimed TiVo. The new-in-January Roku HD. The Xfinity cable box. The cable card.
Oh! And two UPSs/surge protectors (the damage came in through the HDMI cable so the units didn’t protect against that surge).
Needless to say that is not how we envisioned our morning starting.
And how sad is this? Our master bedroom TV moved down so Tom could troubleshoot.
Our first thought was making an insurance claim because the damages totaled about $3000… But it’s always nerve-wracking making a claim on something that isn’t major (and while this felt major, it wasn’t catastrophic). So we just went about gathering receipts and prepping just in case.
For $3,000, I think I would turn it in to the insurance! Twap.
We did, I’m just not caught up on the blog yet!!