The storm damaged the AC unit
He told me to check for a burn in the electrical line
My wife and I live in a mobile home on the outside of town. There is a 1-mile dirt road with lots of gray, black, and white rocks. There are trees scattered on the sides of the road. My wife and I are the only people that live down the dirt road. We live 7 miles away from the closest grocery store and gas station. If I want to go to the mall or a speciality store, it takes me almost an hour. My wife and I have a well for water and a septic system for plumbing. The mobile home has been fixed up a lot, but it is still 40 years old. We don’t have central heat or AC. Last weekend my wife and I found out that the AC unit was struck by a bolt of lightning. We were away for the weekend when the storm occurred. We came back home and the AC unit was off. My wife tried to turn on the power, but nothing happened. I tried to unplug the system and plug it back in, but that didn’t help with the issue either. I called my dad and he suggested that the weekend storm may have damaged the AC unit. He told me to check for a burn in the electrical line. My dad thought that the AC unit had been struck by lightning. My wife and I carefully looked at the AC unit and that’s when we found a burn mark the size of a quarter. It was located on the back of the machine and clearly the spot where a single bolt of lightning struck and killed the machine.