Seeing secondary power surges. They caused the living room TV to fry with a belch of smoke with no warning while it was still off. It also took out the TV Antenna signal booster.

We're waiting for AEP to show up and replace the damaged power line. We've got a 240 line that's only running at 120 right now.

So far AEP is occupied elsewhere, so it may be a couple of days or a week before we see them out here. In the meantime the house is maddeningly silent outside of the occasional use of a portable radio. It drives me crazy, I'm not used to being in such a silent house.

We've had to go to a motel tonight, which is how I am typing this status update. I'll be heading back to the silent and cold house in the morning. I charged what I could, but I'm still going to be twitchy due to the silence of the environment and lack of accessible internet.