Yesterday was pretty interesting…at 11:30 AM, I was going about my business, when suddenly, I heard a very loud electrical ZAP outside my window. I turned back to my laptop, and noticed that my wireless was out. And that I was on battery power. Looking around, it didn’t take long to realize that the power had just gone out.

It sounded kind of like an animal getting a dose of high voltage, but whatever the cause, we were out of power for an hour. Oh well, just a random act of nature, right?

Then it’s 7:30 and we’re eating dinner, and we look outside, and Jaimie says, “It looks like it’s going to rain…” A few minutes later, it suddenly starts pouring. Not just raining, but Bloomington monsoon style. The rain has been going on for about two minutes when there’s a very bright flash of light outside the window, and an extremely loud CRACK of thunder. A car alarm starts going off. And the power goes out.

It appears that lightning struck the electrical pole right by our house, or somewhere near there, because the transformer on it looked somewhat broken, and the power company had to bring a guy on a cherry-picker up there to work his electrical magic. We got our power back two hours later.

I guess it wasn’t a good day for the power company. The worst part was when the power went out the second time, and I said, “Hmm…we do have a gas stove. We should bake cookies.” But alas, it has an electric starter! No cookies for us until the power came back.