On Thursday we had a brief thunderstorm here in the Walla Walla valley. I had the pleasure of being caught in the middle of it, and the hail storm that came with it, while running around a client's yard gassing gophers. Since I don't enjoy the sensation of being shot with thousands of BB guns, I headed for my work truck and waited out the storm.
I came home for a little bit of lunch a short while after that and discovered that I had no internet connection. It tried cycling my modem a few times - nothing. So I called my ISP's tech support line to listen to the status message. They had a generic message about the service being down with no other details.
By that evening, still nothing, and it was the same yesterday morning. Only by then the techs had updated the support line message: the towers that broadcast and receive the signals (I am on a fixed wireless system) were struck by lightning.
Apparently a lot of equipment got fried, but they kept their promise of having the service back up by the evening. I have to give these guys credit - they got up to the mountain top where the tower is despite a fairly heavy blanket of snow up there that came along with the thunderstorm. This service is not the cheapest, and due to circumstances it is my only broadband option here, but fortunately for me I am getting good service, which justifies the expenditure in my book.
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