Sorry, couldn't help the all caps stuff. lol
My wife and I were eating supper last week and a very strong storm came over the house. Thunder, torrential rain and lightning all around. We heard a loud CRACK and the lights dimmed but stayed on. A few seconds later another loud CRACK with an immediate BOOOM. We looked at each other and she said she could feel static electricity on her feet.
We looked around and noticed the oven light on. What The ....? Oven and stove top would not light and then after looking about the lights in the laundry room would not come on.
Seems the lightning hit the rods on top of the house but managed to trip the GFS outlet in the laundry room which I have the overhead wired through with enough power to bypass the circuit breaker. No worries, just reset the outlet and the lights came right on. The stove was another story. I had forgotten that when we put the propane stove in I had to use a 3/2 outlet plug because the fridge plugged into the outlet below it and both would not fit. Fridge was fine but the lightning surge blew out the circuit board on the stove/oven as well as the oven temp control. $100 to replace those.
Learned a lesson, though. All outlets that will have any type of electronics plugged into them will be replaced with GFS outlets as a precaution to back up the circuit breakers. The computer already has a lightning certified breaker bar but I think I'll just do that one too.