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We had a bad storm a few days ago. The power was going off – our generator came on – the regular power came on — over and over and over again in quick succession. After we went to bed this continued. I had to reset our alarm clock and restart the fan at least 6 or 7 times.
We got up to find no power in our office. All the on and off again had finally caused a circuit breaker to trip, so when we moved that back into position, we thought we were okay. NOT SO!
The short version of the story is that the network card in my computer gave up the ghost. Our modem was dead. Our 24-port switch that controls everything was gone. Our TV was gone. I finally got a few things added to my phone – something I basically use for emergencies, so that I could communicate at least a little. No computers, no TV, no movies. I was able to order replacement stuff mostly. We got a new modem on the way via our regular phone.
We kept finding ourselves trying to go look something up in the office and were reminded that we couldn’t do that anymore. It’s a good thing we love to read.
This morning we received the new network card and the 24-port switch. We ran errands quickly because we wanted to be home to receive the modem. We got that before noon. My husband worked and worked, and then I worked and worked and we are finally back up on our computers have have Internet again!
Our TV should be ready for pick up Friday or Saturday.
We’re still not sure whether we were hit by lightning or the rapid on and off of the power did us in.
It’s a real culture shock to find out how dependent we are on computers and Internet. And devices. And how spoiled we are.
I couldn’t write on my blog, and that’s the thing I missed the most. I also couldn’t continue work on my new Etsy store. I was pleased that I could add email and Hangouts to my phone so I could let people know what happened.
I’m more than delighted to be able to write to you again! Forgive my delayed replies to your comments, please.
This has been one of life’s character-building exercises, for sure.
NOW we concentrate on why the spin cycle is causing problems on the clothes washer, and find out if anything else related to the TV is gone, too….
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Welcome back to civilization Linda 😀
Last year in January I lost my PC screen, it went up in smoke because of electrical troubles, my ceramic top in the kitchens computer died, the modem died, my washing machine worked bad and needed to be replaced. We had lightning and later in the night electrical troubles caused old machines.
I learned to close my machines for the night and in bad weather conditions in that house.
Hope all will be good with you soon.
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Thank you, Irene. We just got back from sending the dead modem back via UPS and doing other errands. It’s so NICE to be able to come into the office and have a working computer with Internet! Woo HOOOO! I remember that awful time when you lost so many things. That is so devastating. We have surge protectors and UPS power supply backups, but the combination of power outages, blown breakers and lightning is something that’s hard to fight. We should have our new refurbished TV Friday night or Saturday. NOW we try to figure out how to fix our clothes washer….
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All good luck Linda. It was my clothes washer (washing machine) as did only start and run few minutes, then stopped and would do more. This needed an exchange for me.
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We’re hoping that my husband can fix our washer. He’s going to download the PDF manual, now that we have a computer again. Fingers crossed.
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Sending good vibes your way!
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Thanks so much, Robin. You’re very kind. We can sure use the positive vibes!
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