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TracyQ
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Wow! What a day!
What a day! This morning, we heard soft rumbles of thunder, but no thunder storm with lightening per sey nearby. Still, I chose for the kids not to use the computer for school, and kept it off.
I was in the schoolroom getting books for Jake to do some school not on the computer, when all of a sudden, I heard an explosion and saw the brightest flash of blue light outside the windows feet from me! I screamed! A HUGE lightening bolt struck, and I thought it had either hit our house right near where I was, or directly outside from where I was!
I was thinking a tree could come down any second on us, and gathered the kids in the living room with me, not knowing where to go to see what happened, or how to keep us safe!
Within a minute, still in shock, we saw the police driving up with lights, right near our house. I went to the back door, and saw that the house next door had been hit, their mudroom in the back of their house, feet from where I had been standing. It blew the door off the mudroom, and the blinds, and blew off the phone and electric box off their house, and scorched the house down the electric line. Their roof on the mudroom (attached to their house) was smoldering smoke. Our neighbor saw that there were flames in the basement, as all the firemen were coming to the back, and deciding how to proceed.
The bolt traveled down a joist down to the basement and started a comforter on fire. Thankfully, they got the fire in the basement out, and after pounding in their mudroom to smitherines, that fire was out too.
The mudroom is demolished, due to them chopping it up, and making sure the fire was out. There is some smoke damage too.
Our neighbor was sitting on his couch, and he saw a flash of red, and was jolted from his couch. He thought the dog had chewed through a live wire or something as he was disoriented.
The firemen came to our house to check it because the lightening knocked out a fuse, and electric to the kids’ bedrooms. They checked our upstairs and basement, just to be safe.
A tree in the backyard was hit, and a huge branch is sitting on wires still, though the electric company knows, and will take care of it eventually.
Chris, the neighbor next door said he’s thankful it hit their house where it did, and not ours, because if it had hit our house in the room I was in, I would have been injured for sure. It was within feet of me, a small driveway apart from me! I’m thanking God tonight that our neighbor, that our children, and that I was not hurt. Praise God!
I must admit, my insides are still shaking at 5:30 p.m., and this happened about 9:30 a.m. It really put me in a sort of shock I must say, and I am really having trouble shaking it. I know that God is good, and I am thankful, but keep thinking about the *what ifs*.
We were able to help our neighbors today as they went through this, and I’m thankful for that. I’m thankful the damage is minimal compared to what it could have been. And I’m thankful our guardian angels watched over and protected us, and that the Lord holds us in His arms. But my perspective is a bit different tonight, and I’m a bit contemplative, I must say.
It was even on the news! 
You can't get much more hands on for fire saftey than that, can ya???? 
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Blessings and Peace,
Tracy Q.
wife of Marty for 20 years, mom of 3 wonderful children (1 homeschool graduate, 1 12th grader, and a 9th grader),
 homeschooling in 15th year in Buffalo, NY
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Thank God you are all alright! Prayers to you that you
can work through this jolting experience. Your guardian
angels were working overtime.
Prayers and blessings,
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Wow, Tracy! With that kind of real life experience for school, who needs a computer? So glad you are all okay.
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Goodness, glad to hear you are all safe!
Leonie in Sydney
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Thank goodness you're all okay!
Guardian angels be praised!
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Tracy,
All I can say is WOW!!!
Praying you are feeling more peaceful each day.
God bless,
Marybeth
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