Monday, September 24, 2007

Lighting Bolt

We was just sitting in the living room on Friday night when down from the sky came a big bolt of lighting and blew up a transformer on our street. Then everything went all dark. The mom was scrambling around looking for flashlights and candles. We just thought that's funny - we sees fine. It didn't take long for the lights to come back on - but then the mom found out that her modem was fried. She couldn't get on the internet. So we wasn't able to visit our blogging friends and we didn't get to go to Speedy's party. Mom had to wait till Monday morning to get a new modem from the cable company and she just got everything going again. We's had enought of these tunder storms - we can't go on the screened porch because it always gets wet and the sun goes away. We wants SUN! We wants SUN!

17 comments:

Mark's Mews (Marley, Lori, Loki, and Binq) said...

Wow, you too? We lost our lectricity a few days ago. At least we didn't get the thunder-boomer and lightning.

It was clear outside an in the middle of the day. We dint really notice anything except that the sparkly box went off suddenly. Mostly, we noticed that it got REAL quiet in the cave.

Skeeter and LC

Katnippia said...

Hi Midnight, and Stray Kitty,
It's very nice to meetz youz both. We have had some nice thunder boomerz here as well. We didn't lose the lights thoughz.Oh, what part of central flo-ree-dahz are youz in?
Purss..Siamia

Mosaic Cats said...

Oh gosh.
We do feel your pain!
Fortunately now we have one of those external modems with our new DSL and our laptop. But when we lived in CO we had an old iMac with the internal modem. Mosaic Lady had just walked in the door from work and logged on and dialed up (yes, she had dial up until last May. Can you believe that?) A bolt of lightning crashed down and she saw it strike and IGNITE a tree across the street from us. It also blew out the iMac's internal modem.
It was VERY traumatic, to say the least.
Now we unplug and shut down during every storm!
Our nerves can't take loss of internet access. The DTs hurt.

Unknown said...

Thanks for visiting my blog - I like to meet new friends. Aren't you afraid of lightening? I always cuddle up on my Mum's lap and hide my head under her shirt when it thunders and lightenings!

P.S. You made me laugh when you said I could get back at my Mum by going on a hunger strike - did you see my picture? I'm rather, ummmm, fluffy : )

Team Tabby said...

Good to meet you Midnite and Stray Kitty. We hates the lightning and we really, really hates the thunder booming. We hide. Glad to see you are back online and safe and sound.

Moe & Mindy

Puff said...

Hi Midnite & Stray Kitty, Thanks for your kind words about baby Jake. He's much better, so I hissed at him just for fun!

Victor Tabbycat said...

We gots tstorms a lot, too, but they nefur did anyfing so bad to our howse... at least, not yet. I's glad they could fix the lectrickal so fast cuz it's not good fur beans wifout lite. Did you know blind beans keep lites on fur their guide woofies? Purrs an no more tstorms!

Forty Paws said...

Wow! Our Maw would go into withdrawal without her internet.

Luf, Us

Anonymous said...

Awww, I hope you get some sun soon! It's always interesting to watch the beans when the power goes off. As you pointed out, we kitties can see just fine, but they need all kinds of extra help! *smile*

Purrs and snuggles from Marilyn!

Samantha & Mom said...

We've been getting those kinda storms almost everyday for the last week or so, too. But we have lots of sun we can send your way.
Your FL furiends,

MaoMao said...

I hope you get sun soon, too! Sun is furry nice. I don't mind storms though -- I'm the only kitty inna housie who isn't afraid of 'em! Well, they don't bothur Marilyn much either cuz she doesn't hear too good but Dorydoo hides under the bed and Brainball goes on patrol around the house!

Kittyhugs and purrs from MaoMao!

Shaggy and Scout said...

We've had windy & rainy weather lately too. That lightning is scary stuff!
Thanks for visiting our blog! We finally got around to coming over to visit you!
Our mom goes crazy without internet too!

MISS PEACH ~(^.^)~ said...

Such a pleasure to meet you Midnight and Stray Kitty! Thank you for your visit today. If you come over here where I live in the desert...there is always plenty of sunshine! It doesn't rain much here ever! I don't know why they call this place the evergreen state? I know you will enjoy cat blogging...it rocks and you will meet friends from all over the world:)
Stop over often....take good care of yourselves:)
Love Miss Peach

Dragonheart, Merlin, Devi, and Chloe said...

Oh my goodness! I'm sorry to hear about the lightning strike - that sounds very scary! I agree with you - I always want sun.

ANGEL ABBYGRACE said...

Momma has lost SEVERAL of dem modems to 'lectrical boom booms. She unplugs efurryfing now when there are real bad boom booms in our area.

Good fing yu wuz only out of dat modem furr a few days...

Purrs
Abby

Parker said...

That's awful! We haven't had any storms like that in a long time!

Tommy and Teaghan said...

Oh yoo poor fings. Flashy fings den da BIG BOOMS scare us. We didn't haf hardly any of dem storms dis summer.