AllenOK
Executive Chef
I had just arrived at work, and not five minutes later, a bright FLASH and a simultaneous BANG herralded the fact that we just took a lightning strike to the building. I found out a few minutes later, that the bolt travelled from the roof, through the building, into the basement, where it exploded out a pipe and into wall. One of our housekeeping employees saw it, and heard the resulting INDOOR thunderclap. The shockwave knocked her across that room in the basement. Although she was fortunate to not have been electrocuted, she did suffer some hearing loss in one ear. I'm not sure if it's permanent or not.
About 30 minutes later, we found out another casualty of the lightning strike; our computerized ordering system managed to get a bit of the strike, and although none of the equipment was burned out, it wasn't working. A technician managed to get it working, but an hour after he left, it went down again. Most of the night I was on "old school" ordering, reading hand-written tickets.
How was your day?
About 30 minutes later, we found out another casualty of the lightning strike; our computerized ordering system managed to get a bit of the strike, and although none of the equipment was burned out, it wasn't working. A technician managed to get it working, but an hour after he left, it went down again. Most of the night I was on "old school" ordering, reading hand-written tickets.
How was your day?