Lightning Strikes

Found out today from our next-door neighbor that the neighbor 3 houses down was hit by lightning the other day when we all heard a loud boom associated with lightning. Our neighbor saw the blinding white flash since he happened to be looking out the window at that time.

That house lost 3 TVs with that lightning hit but the PC was okay.... one was a big screen... OUCH.

We got lucky since our house is the highest house (due to its position on the sloped hill and the fact that our immediate neighbors have one-story houses instead of two) near where lightning striked. We could have lost our 50" TV, 3 PCs and 1 notebook...