Well...THAT was fun. A tree fell one street over and took out a power line or two. In so doing, it sent 7200 volts to every house on our street. Damage I've heard ranged from major appliances going bad (our microwave is no longer functional, as are several other peoples') to the miniscule (a GFCI outlet was blown in our house as well).
One bit of damage was the power supply on the GearBits server here was totally shot. Now that that's fixed and our Internet service has been restored (also delivered over the power lines), we're back online.
So, sorry for the outage...maybe that whole-house surge suppressant system that Duke Energy offers isn't such a bad idea after all.
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