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Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

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7 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

I did.  Lighting fried the board in the unit, as well as the wire from the unit to the house (which needed replacing anyway).  A bit over $1200 each item to fix.  Had it topped $7k or so, I'd have turned in an insurance claim.

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7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

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Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years.
2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs).
2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience.
2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers.
2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage.
Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.

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