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What is going on!? So I started the day a-ok. Decent. Go to work, LA Dee daa. Go on my break to get my lunch and some jerk parked up against my car. Wiggled in only to find my car no longer can reverse (that darn tranny) so while I'm sitting in it smoking a cig and lamenting the fact that I won't have lunch today, I notice "boy there sure are some dark clouds in the sky. Isn't it going to rain?" Pull up the forecast and no the radar is clear as cream. Weird. Pull up a different radar just to double check, still crystal.

Okay? I go back inside and sit at my desk and no sooner does my tush touch the seat it sounded like a bomb went off right outside my office. All the lights and computers go out and there's an awful smell and suddenly I'm surrounded by blaring alarms and security phones screaming and the lights start flickering.

Then my lights and computers come back up, but somehow my office and the er are the only places with any power. We frantically call in all of the emergency people, trying to figure out why the generators failed and how to get them back, we have patients on ventilators and life support so it's kind of imperative that our generators work.

Anyway Im having an anxiety attack while dealing with all of this. It's insane.

Turns out the radar was very very wrong. Very wrong. And lightning struck our generators. The big boom. Everything is insane. We got the generators working again but the computer network has crashed, the coolers in surgery and lab are down, and some spots are still black.

It's insanity.

LadyAlyxandrea 8 June 18
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If the radar was clear, the barometric pressure and humidity levels were the culprits working in tandem. A storm could have easily generated over you with no indication from the radar.

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Eventful damn day. Glad you're safe.

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Eek. Sorry your day went sideways. I hope tomorrow is better.

At least this time I'm not in a bad mood. No one died on my shift, I survived a crazy emergency situation I was not trained or prepared to deal with, I got to go home early, and my car made it home.

@LadyAlyxandrea sweet! Way to survive and prevail.

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Sometimes radar will go down in intense storms.

It happened here tonight too - it showed nothing because the info. wasn't being relayed.

Always trust you senses first!

Glad you are ok.

Definitely lol. Wow that's dangerous having the radars down

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It's probably a good thing you were back inside when it hit!

Yeah! It's very close to where I was that got struck. Oh why didn't it hit my POS car instead!? Except when I wasn't in it lol

@LadyAlyxandrea You have my sympathy on the car woes. I drove a 1972 Buick Skylark for 6 months with no reverse. It's a pain at best. I had kids though so I could make them go with me to push the car if I needed it pushed.

@sewchick57 it's a long time to go without reverse lol. I'm already exhausted from it lol

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I think it's going to be a while before anyone at your work complains about how boring it is around there. Glad that they were able to get the emergency back generators running.

I don't think anyone has ever complained at my work about it being boring lol but yeah that was enough excitement for a while. I was sooooo scared!

@LadyAlyxandrea My wife and I were struck by lightning back in 2000, it's a memorable experience, if you survive it. My electrical project manager has been struck by lightning 3 times, blew his shoes right off the second time he was hit. 😮

@Surfpirate y'all should play the lotto

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