Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Homesteading: Living at the mercy of Nature




We came back from a lovely beach weekend to find that our house had been hit by lightning! Lightning struck the ground at the well, traveled down the pipe to the well, cracking the well casing. Apparently the lightning then raced through the wires to our breaker box and into the house. We lost the computer, a phone, smoke detector, the golf cart battery charger and a few other things....not to mention the well! We have no water. We are true homesteaders now. Thank goodness we didn't lose the freezer!

Mother Nature is powerful. But we are strong.