Lightning Strike

Last night was a scary night for me and my family. We didn't hear any rain or anything until we heard a huge bang and a crash!!!!! We didn't know what it was, but suddenly our alarm went off randomly and all of the power shut off and i woke up. My mom came into my room and i asked her what happened and she didn't know. So the police came because out alarm went off and they said that the lightning hit our house!!! How scary is that?! i was pretty scared. The police looked at the top of our house and saw that we had some kind of lightning rod at the top and that all the electricity probably went to the ground, but luckily no one was standing on the ground when it happened. Then we started to smell something like gas. So we called the fire department and they came over and checked out the house and said that the generator was just letting off exhaust and that was the smell. then we all went back to bed and my little brother never even woke up. Then today we turned on the outside lights and they were making a weird noise and they started to spark. This was scary so my mom said don't put on the lights outside. She said she was going to call the electrician in the morning and they could fix it. 

Don't you think that they should have some kind of emergency electrician on duty somewhere to come when something like this happens? Because if we kept the lights on, they could maybe start a fire or something. I think that there should be an emergency electrician place so they could come and fix it. What do you think? Would you be scared if this happened to you?