[TheRaisin]

Circuit breakers probably wouldn't turn off fast enough to prevent a computer from getting fried if a bolt of lightning hit your house. Or the... power line or whatever. Or something. I'm no expert.

I love storms. We get a fair number of them in this here Worshington, at least where I live. They're not usually accompanied by a whole lot of precipitation, except every once in a while when we get one of those torrential downpours that make living in a desert just worth it. Anyway.

Best storm I ever experienced: It was the week I went to summer camp, and our group thingy had chosen that night to do our campout dealy. A couple hours after we were forced to go to "bed" (a sleeping bag, which we had to provide, on a tarp) it started to rain, becoming fairly substantial within a few minutes. We all gathered in the spacious latrine (there was a lot of melodramatic little kid talk about how we were all going to die; I found it pretty amusing, myself, and much better than what we had planned) until a couple camp counselors rode gallantly to our rescue in their noble white steeds (the camp vans)!

Throughout the whole thing there was torrential rain, earth-shaking thunder, and these INCREDIBLY EERIE flashes of lightning that were so diffused by the clouds that you couldn't see where they were coming from, you would just suddenly see the entire sky flash and you would see the dark silhouettes of the trees outlined against it. And the camp was totally flooded for days afterwards. Ya could lose a boot in that mud.

It ROCKED.