Where was Chuck Norris?

I've meaning to blog about this since it happened, so here goes. Two weeks ago, our house got struck by lightning. Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds. It struck the left corner of our garage and blasted away one single shingle. The damages we suffered were not bad at all (it could've been a whole lot worse), but it was annoying nevertheless: the fuses in our electronic garage door were fried, our cable boxes were damaged, our printer broke, and five or six electrical outlets were fried as well. Thankfully, the computers and wireless connections were fine and no fire started.

I spent a good part of Saturday manually replacing the damaged outlets with new ones. These replacements are pretty cheap and now we can plug in things! Our other printer was still under warranty, so it wasn't difficult to get a new one. Now the only thing that needs to be fixed is our garage door, which will cost around $153. We can still open the garage, but we have to do it manually. I don't think our front door has been used so often.

They say the odds of getting struck by lightning is pretty high, so we should feel "lucky". However, these odds were not favorable. If only our "luck" was used for something like a $10,000 scholarship drawing or something good, not something inconvenient like getting struck by lightning. But still, I'm glad nothing serious happened.

My question is, where was Chuck Norris in all this? He is the only human who can strike lightning, not the other way around. If only he'd seen it coming toward our house, he could've hit it before it hit us. Oh well.