The entire city was awoken yesterday by a deafening sound. About a single in the morning there was a loud boom that basically shook the house… Both of us awoke to find that the power was out plus our partner grabbed the flashlight plus headed downstairs to see what had happened, when he looked outside he saw various of our neighbors sitting outside as well plus all the people looked just as confused as the people I was with and I did. If you block waiter the people I was with and I can see the glow of some sort of a fire plus hoped that all the people was okay. Apparently a single of the light poles have been struck by lightning plus the transformer had exploded. Both of us were experiencing thunderstorms at the time but didn’t think they were bad enough to cause such havoc. My partner instantly went in plus turned off the power that went to various of the appliances including the Heating plus Air Conditioning system. He didn’t want a power surge to mangle them once the repairs were made to the line, Many people do not realize that this needs to be done to prevent troubles plus it is pressing to remember that your appliances cannot take a terrifying jolt of electricity. Many of them installed with ground faults that prevent is from being a problem but to be on the safe side you are always better to turn them off or split the power to them while waiting for the electricity to come back on. Both of us ended up being without power for almost 24 hours plus thankfully the weather conditions weren’t too tepid or too cold. It was only the middle of May so the people I was with and I weren’t dependent upon our Heating plus Air Conditioning method to keep us comfortable anyway.