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From Skype:
[01/06/2013 02:37:15] j: I JUST GOT INTO THE BATH, WHEN A GREAT THUNDERSTORM STARTED UP. THE FIRST CLAP O THUNDER AND LIGHTNING BLEW OUT THE POWER IN THE WHOLE AREA. EVEN THE HOTEL PHONE WAS FKD. SO BEEN DOZIN N WAITIN FOR POWER TO COME BACK ON. COULD HAVE LOST THE COMPUTER COS FRIDGE IS ON THE SAME TABLE. NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD DEFROST, SO FAST; COVERED THE TABLE W WATER BUT NOT DEEP ENUF TO GET INTO THE ELECTRICS. TRIED TO PHONE THE HOUSE AS POWER CAME BACK ON BUT THAT IS STILL NOT FULLY RUNNING SO HAD TO WAIT TO GET SKYPE AGAIN.
SORRY TO WAKE YOU, BUT I HAD NO WAY OF GETTING IN TOUCH, NORMALLY THUNDERSTORMS CAN CUT THE POWER BUT USUALLY THE PHONES ARE LEFT OK
BUT THIS WAS LIKE THE CLAP O DOOOM !!!!!