I was undoubtedly lucky last night, and shortly before leaving work I looked out the window of my office and saw black clouds rolling in the distance. I saw a distant flash of lightning and knew that my friend and I were in store for a heavy summer thunderstorm. I looked at the doppler radar on my cell phone and noted that the rain, wind, and lightning would come to cover my route before I would be able to make it through rush hour traffic. I said a silent prayer for safe travel as I waited for the remainder of the 32 minutes of my shift to end. By the time I got to my vehicle in the parking garage, I could feel the wind picking up. I was about halfway property when the dark and menacing clouds and lightning and thunder offered way to a torrent of rain. I made it to the property safely, but just as I was grabbing the leash to take my dog out quickly there was a flash and a boom and the power was knocked out. I was hoping that the power would be restored before bedtime because I didn’t feel I was going to be able to sleep without the benefit of the cooling system and my fans blowing in my room. I simply cannot sleep well at all when I don’t have a cool home office and the noise of a fan blowing. That’s how desperately I rely on the cooling system and white noise. Well, the hours went by and I was settling into bed with the lights not yet being restored. I resigned myself to sleeping without a cooling system or a fan when abruptly I heard a rumble of thunder. I checked on the weather to see that a second wave of rainy weather was coming that would last through the vast majority of the night! I was lucky because I was going to get the lullaby of the rain falling outside with distant rumbles of thunder. I was also going to get the benefit of the cool breeze blowing, because I opted to leave my window up. This was, of course, the next best thing to a cooling system.