
What a storm! The prediction was for heavy rain, thunder and lightning, hail, and high winds. Boy howdy! Around 2 am I went from sound asleep to standing in no seconds due to the loudest boom I ever heard. Thought I was back on ship and the big guns were firing, all of them and all at once. So I did what anybody else would do and went out to have a look.
In the pouring rain and blinding lightning flashes I couldn’t see any downed trees or anything obvious, so I had a cup of coffee and thought things over. That’s when I noticed we had no phone or internet, the TV however did work. So, I watched a re-run of NCIS New Orleans while I thought things over and thought things would look better when daylight came.
Wrong! Turns out the boom I heard was lightning hitting the old pine tree, again. Looks like the second time’s a charm as it will probably have to be cut down due to the damage. The lightning followed a path down the tree blowing bark, branches, and wood chunks about 50 feet in all directions. To say the tree is singed would not do it justice.
The reason this post is so late is I just got our internet back up. Turns out the second time’s a charm on rebooting the modem also. Makes me wish we could reboot the phone. But we came through the storm without losing power and the wife slept through the storm so there is that. Enjoy our Saturday as it’s here now anyway.