Disaster for us today, lightening struck our house around 3:30 PM. We had a bad thunderstorm and it hit us direct. Scared the c**p out of us. John screamed as it seemed like the lightening was coming into the house, it flashed like it was coming into the kitchen and made a loud and vibrating crack. Immediately we lost our Internet and the pool pump, both have electrical circuits at the back of the house. We did not lose our power though.
It took out the outside ground fault plug and pool pump. It fried our Internet modem and all 3 computers connected to it plus the printer and scanner. What a expensive thing this is going to be on top of moving. We will lose all our data,

which is even worse. Insurance said I am covered for it but since I made a claim 2 years ago in June when a Tornado damaged our house, I now have to pay a deductible of $1000 and my insurance will go up grrrrr. So we need to do some work to see how much it will cost to replace all that. In any case, this will cost us at least $1000
The Internet modem is being replaced tomorrow but we only have our iPads to work from for now.
The lightening strike came in through the cable modem and not through the power plugs so good thing our TVs are not cable or we would have lost them too.
Oh dear, life is exciting isn't it?