Lightning Strikes!!

Sunday, 5-11-08, Mothers' Day! 2:40 in the morning, lightning hit our house. We jumped out of bed, looked around then layed back down and said, "wow that was close." 1 minute later, the fire alarm sounds, then the burglar alarm screams, now we are really scrambling to get out of bed...dogs are running between our feet, we are tripping. We can't get the alarms off, no buttons will work on alarm system, geez!
Finally, an hour later, we lay back down thinking of the things that are not working, like our phone, alarm....then the garage door opens by itself and we can't shut it except manually. (must be miss minet)
We are up at 5am checking for damage!! Anyway, Hank started getting out his test equipment, and tools! He was so excited!! I haven't seem him this excited in months (lol) he would check something out, leave his tools...go to another project, leave more tools, pull out ladder, leave more tools...move on upstairs then downstairs. This is what he did at work, start a project then they would move him to another project. He was loving this until he saw how much it was adding up to...finally he said, "call our insurance company."
Yesterday, we were able to get out and check the RV, guess what? It got hit too!!!

The Bright side, God Blessed us with having the alarm system hooked up(within the last month) and waking us up with the smoke!! We are all just fine!! Thank you Lord!