TP: Where have all the writer's gone? They have gone to flowers, ever one! :]

jon:  I feel your pain. I live in an underground house, and over the years I have lost four televisions, three phones, answering machines, VCR, etc.

Once I was talking on the phone and a lightning strike hit the phone knocking it out of my hand.

And yes, I too have power strips. Sometimes the boomers come out of a clear sky. No advance warning, just death to appliances.

I always unplug my computers when I go on holiday, or at the first sound or sight of a T-storm.

Hope you are back up and running at full force real soon!

Dee-Marie