My area had a bad storm recently.
It wasn’t a hurricane, just a bad thunderstorm, dropping both rain and hail.
There were a whole lot of lightning strikes. My household made it out okay, but my neighbor wasn’t so lucky. At one point in the storm thinking that my house had been directly struck by lightning because it sounded right on top of us, but it turns out that my neighbor’s household had been struck instead. The lightning strike wreaked havoc on his electrical system. There was considerable electrical harm, as well as the worst part for him was that the system’s circuitry was fried as well! It was going to cost him a pretty penny to service his HVAC component at this point. This involved getting his household rewired. We can be grateful that there wasn’t any sort of fire or anything. Still, it’s going to be quite some time before his family will be able to appreciate electricity, much less a running air conditioning unit. My wife and I decided to buy a few portable, battery-operated air conditioning units for our neighbor, as a gift. He was grateful, and said that at least he would be able to set one up in the master living room. Another one could go up in his kids’ room. It was a tough situation to be in, but I am sure his family will pull through.