Bad news! It was drizzling this morning and my husband left the desktop PC running. The wireless router too was switched on to keep the internet connected while downloading some stuff. No prize for guessing what happened next.

Yes you’re right. Some equipment were fried by a freak lightning strike. His desktop CPU and our Linksys wireless router modem is down. The LCD monitor survived and perhaps some components within the desktop CPU is salvageable. He’ll give it a thorough testing tomorrow to find out about it.

I’m lucky my ThinkPad notebook wasn’t plugged in when the lightning striked out of nowhere. A fried notebook is going to cost me bigtime in repairs.

Now that our wireless Linksys router modem is dead, we are using our old cable modem+router as a backup. We’ll be getting a new wireless router+modem tomorrow.