OH Good Heavens. So glad no more damage was done. This happened to a neighbor of ours at our last house up on the hill and they had much more damage. One tiny reason I am glad to be off that hill. They were higher so more likely to get it but still. I am glad we are not there.

Hoping you have a great time with family and all gets resolved electrically.

Chris

you're lucky that strike wasn't worse! goodness that would be scary!

so glad ds managed to get home early and the 3 of them surprise you. What fun! Enjoy your time with him - and I hope he gets out soon for good. Tell him thanks a million for me!

Thanks, shades and steph, we live at the base of a low ridge--I think the strike was close, but not a direct hit, thank goodness.

We're having a great time--LOL, kitchen is always messy, washing machine is working overtime, and I never know who I'll find on the couch in the AM--just like the good old days!

How wonderful that he is home! I hope your appliances continue to be ok; I've heard the damage isn't immediately apparent.

Hey, Mama! Best of wishes for your son's visit, and all the activities this reunion brings. I've noticed quite a bit of turbulent electrical storms this summer, and have decided to take cover instead of strolling around while it rained. I used to love the thunderstorms, but life is too precious to risk now.

My computer is doing better since I added Comcast telephone and got a newer modem to handle it. I did not realize they had two classes of modems, but it does make a difference. However, I'm having slowness with Gardenweb. It does not want to scroll or load, and that really irritates me. And I'm half way down the sentence before the letters print. Bummer.

Well, I'm glad you have your internet back, we like to hear from you. After the son returns to duty, we'll still be here to cheer you up.

Thank you for all the good wishes! He'll be here for another week or so--we'll have to make the most of it!

Well, we've been without internet again--it's been intermittent at best, and really not worth the trouble. I think I've mentioned that I've been using internet for only a little over a year, and I'm still timid when it comes to technical issues. We've had three (3!) telephone company repairmen here six times in various combinations, sometimes alone, sometimes two together. Of course, they are here during the day, when my husband is at work, so imagine these poor guys asking me questions, and instructing me to check the modem--a week ago I had no idea where the modem was, let alone that it had lights that tell what it's doing.

So, all these guys couldn't figure out the 'intermittent' problems. It seemed to be working when they were here, and all the 'physical' components seemed to be in order, but we would have service for only a short time, then it would quit. We'd re-boot the modem for a few minutes (a couple of hours, if we were lucky) of service, then it was off again. The phone co sent a new modem which didn't solve the problem, and we even unplugged the new remote phone, thinking that it might be the cause.

We've had our son here for two weeks, my BIL and his boys haven been around a lot, my younger DD has been here a couple of times, and all their various friends have been coming and going, too, at all hours of the day and night. Except for yesterday:

DH, BIL and all the boys went whitewater rafting, DD went to Cleveland with a friend, and I was here on my own (except for 2 yr old grandson) for most of the day. The phone guys checked lines in the early afternoon, and gave me the 'everything's working now' line, so I settled in to try and catch up on email and gardenweb :)

My son-in-law called to say that he was coming to pick up grandson later in the evening, and when I returned to the computer, the internet was out. I re-booted the modem, and had no problems for an hour or so, then DH called to say that everyone survived the rafting trip, and they were on the way home. When I returned to the computer, the internet was out again. I re-booted, then shortly my daughter inadvertently slammed the back door, which is beside the telephone. The internet immediately went out AGAIN. And something clicked in my brain--we've had a lot of traffic in and out of that door, and more people have been here using the phone--maybe there was a connection?!!

I told DH my theory, he picked up a new phone this AM, ran home to install it, found a FRIED WIRE, held down by a LOOSE SCREW, evidently damage from the LIGHTNING STRIKE. He replaced the wire, installed the new phone, and here I am typing to you all, with no problems so far. We've tried the phone, answered phone calls, slammed the door, plugged in the remote phone, no problems. Evidently whenever we answered the phone, or closed the door hard enough to 'disconnect' the line, we were losing internet service.

So why didn't THREE phone guys and my computer-savvy DH think to check the phone that I told them 'popped' when the lightning hit?!! LOL, do I have to do EVERYTHING around here?!!

Sorry for the long, rambling post, but can it be that simple?!!

It's always the simple things that we forget....like turn on the Switch. I remember a call I went on (clear across the country) because of a printer problem. No one had figured out for 2 weeks that people were tripping over the plug connection enough to cause irratic behavior.

Don't you love it when you solve the problem? Good for you.