[stomachmonkey]

About 5 am, sound asleep.

I have blackout curtains and shades on my windows and I swear I saw the entire room lit up even with my eyes closed.

There is something about where my house is located as this is the 3rd strike in the same spot in 8 years.

Two of my neighbors lost a bunch of AV equipment plus the guy next door lost his AC units.

I got lucky, so far it seems I only lost some networking equipment in my offices up front, two routers and a switch. It also tripped my in ground sprinklers. Didn't notice at 5 AM because it was pouring but at 8 when I went out every zone was open and water was running everywhere.

My wife hounds me because I hoard equipment, she changed her tune when I pulled an older but still serviceable router out of a drawer and managed to get back most of the home networking.

It'll do until new gear shows up this week.

All in all just happy it was not a direct hit on one of the houses.