From early Springtime to late summer, my area is slammed with serious thunderstorms, hail, tornados, plus flash floods.
- The two of us live in the foothills of a greater mountain range, so many of the neighborhoods are built up into slowly ascending hills, however when you reach the top, you can see the town in the valley below plus it’s an amazing view.
Even though it’s still too low to be considered a mountain, the elevation is conducive for avoiding flooding plus for being more guarded from tornados. Still, the two of us get some of the worst lightning strikes because the two of us are so much closer to the storm clouds. There was an deranged storm Last month that had me scrambling to get my cats plus cats in the back door before the sky went black plus the pouring rains began. An hour into the madness, I heard an unbelievably loud lightning strike that echoed into my home office love an explosion. Then I heard a loud creaking noise followed by another crash, this time accompanied with the sound of mangled metal love a automobile collision. Branches had slid down the side of my house, however thankfully nothing punctured the outside wall. Instead, my high-priced heating plus cooling condenser had been destroyed. This was no straight-forward repair or upgradement task, I was going to need a brand new heating plus cooling idea because condensers cannot be purchased separately. You have to buy an air handler plus condenser in a pair so you’re not mixing coolant from the ancient 1 with the coolant from the new system. From a single lightning strike, I am looking at $7,000 for a new cooling system. I have to keep reminding myself that I’m fortunate the tree didn’t go through my house.