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Friday, August 13, 2010

Back on-line again

At last we are back on-line again. 2 weeks ago a severe thunderstorm passed over Rollyview. We were watching Vos, from the garage, as he dared (needed?) to go outside to pee. All of a sudden a flash of lightning crossed our house horizontally, with a very very loud crack. It was so close by we could smell it, like a gun being fired. Vos was scared s....less, his hair standing out like being hit by 220 (110 over here). He was shaking violently but was able to find the house, he ran inside into the basement; not to be seen for an hour or so.Vos is not so lucky, yesterday he experienced a very loud thunder again while outside; again the basement came to his rescue.
There was no direct hit but probably a couple of sparks (from 50000 volt a spark easily is 500 volt) hit our Internet and TV satellite dish causing the power to fail. I tried to repair it myself, stupid because it turned out to be under warranty. So here we are again; phone still not working.