Lightning and computers

Wow, just had one of the worst scares of this year. Lightning struck near our house yesterday. Big storm. My laptop and desktop were still plugged in to the electricity and phone. When the storm was over my laptop would startup. I thought the hard drive and many other components were trashed. Last backup was 3 months ago! I spent the past 24 hours in deep mourning. Long story short, only the mini-pci modem/ethernet cart was trashed. Once I pulled it out, everything else worked. The desktop modem was hosed too. A new desktop modem cost Rp. 130,000 (or about $14). Don't know whether Dell will replace the dead laptop modem/netcard.

7:13:53 PM