We had a really bad storm here on Tuesday afternoon/evening. Jonathan was working, so I was here alone. I hate thunderstorms anyway, but alone they are much worse! There was terrible lighting & to make a long story short, it struck a fuse on the top of the pole that brings electric to our house! So we were w/out electric for almost 12 hours! This is where the real adventure begins...remember we got tons of rain too, & the yard was terrible. The lighting struck the pole with a really REALLY LOUD bang at5:40PM!! It scared me pretty bad! I started calling all my neighbours to see who had electric or not! So, we survived until Jonathan came home & then we went to walmart - the storms were over by this time, & walmart had AC and lights!! The electric company said they would have it back on in about 4 hours, so we hung out at walmart until about 9:30 & then got some hot food at Jack in the Box, and went home. Still no electric, so we got an extention cord & hooked up a lamp & fan in the livingroom to our power inverter in the truck!! Kylie was in bed & Jonathan & I were just sitting in the LR talking & playing w/ Korey when the power inverter went off. It ran the battery down to where it wouldn't run it anymore. So he went out & jumped the truck w/ the 4-runner. By the time he got that done we decided to call the electric company again (it was after midnight I think or close to it). They said they had guys out working in our area & it wouldn't be long. So, we figured we might as well try to get some sleep, & that we'd sleep in the LR since there were more windows to open b/c it was hot! Well, I don't think either of us have ever slept on our sofa bed. Sorry to everyone who has!! It sags in the middle, so Jonathan got the 'brilliant' idea to put the cushions under the matress to help it not to sag -- instead it made it really high there & not very comfortable. But we 'slept' there until 4 AM when they got the electric back on. So that was my great adventure for the week - it seemed worse then, than it does now! We have some pictures of the flooding on Jonathan's cell phone, that I will try to get on here soon!