Lightning!

It's been a while since our last post. Time has gone by fast because we've been so busy. The house is complete and we are in and pretty much settled, for the most part. Of course, there are always things to work on, as well as things that need fixing--even in a new house. We had lightning strike the marsh right behind our house a few weeks ago. Jackson & I were home and it felt to us like it actually hit the house--it was such a loud CRACK and we could just FEEL it. As a result of that, our main TV in the family room was fried, as were the two direct TV receivers, and our internet modem. All of it were on surge protectors. We were using two different brands of surge protectors--Belkin and Prime. What we noticed was that everything hooked up to the Belkin protectors survived, and the things plugged in to the Prime protectors got fried. Draw your own conclusions!! We are communicating with Prime, trying to get them to reimburse us for some of this stuff; we'll see what happens. We had to send in the surge protectors so they could test them and they were supposed to send us replacements in the mean time, which they did, but they were the wrong models! Again, draw your own conclusions. Would I personally buy Prime surge protectors again? Draw your own conclusions, just kidding, the answer is "NO!"