Free Write Tuesday prompt Manipulation

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This is my post for #freewrite prompt manipulation by@mariannewest.

We had a very violent early morning thunderstorm, It woke me around 2:30, the lightning was hitting very close to the house. I was looking out the window when the lightning struck and before the flash went away the thunder boomed and everything outside turned bright red and I heard a transformer blow. Then our power went out. I got a flashlight and went outside to see if anything was on fire. I did not stay long because it was still storming. I did not wake my husband, I have no clue how he could sleep through it. After daylight, we called the power company and they told us they would have someone here by 9:30. My husband did not fish today, he waited on the power truck. Before it was fixed he said they had three power trucks here. They had to put in a new transformer. When our power came back, I say we got lucky the manipulation of lightning was not worse my husband says we are in a slump because we got hit by it again. We put our boat batteries on a charger each evening and it blew both of them up. It blew our modem up and my landline. That is all and the reason I say we got lucky.

Years ago at our old house, we were having another night thunderstorm and our youngest son told me that each time it lightninged he could see a white owl sitting on the electric wires so I watched and sure enough the next bolt of lightning I could see it, I watched for a couple more strikes and the next one hit the pole by our house and knocked our power out. We watched for the owl and figured he flew off but when the kids were walking home from the bus stop they found it under the power lines dead. I guess the lightning got it. This time it blew up a lot of things in the house, our fridge, vcr, tv, washer, every light bulb even the ones that were off.

Today I caught 14 trout that weighed 23 pounds, if they pass the new size limits I would have 6 I could sell

I would have to throw these 8 back