The first weekend of May, we were at the lake (of course) and it rained and stormed a lot.
We decided to come home on Tuesday (have to work, sometime) only to find that the garage door wouldn't open. No problem, probably a dead battery from a power outage. Then, when we got in.....I turned on the TV in the bedroom and it wouldn't turn on. So, I tried the living room TV, also wouldn't turn on. I walked into the master bathroom and saw several gold colored scorch marks on the mirrors, then I noticed that Jimmy's mirror was broken at the edge and there was a scorch mark on the wall! The house had been hit by lightening!!!I heard a faint whirring sound on the other side of the wall. Jimmy yelled for me from the back bedroom of the house. The treadmill was on and running full blast! I guess it had been on for days because the belt had begun disintgrating and there was a black rubbery powder all over the carpet.
As the days have gone by, we have found that the intercom system, sprinkler system,telephone system, doorbell, oven light stays on,
HDMI ports on another of our TVs, one of the small tvs in the guest room is fried, but the good news is that all the computers in the other end of the house (the home office) are fine. The unusual thing is that all of the electronics were plugged into Monster surge protectors and it still fried everything! Lightening is a bizarre thing.