The lightning hit on Janice's business was something I took from my own experience. For quite a few years I was the IT manager at my company, by virtue of the fact that I was the only member of management who had ever seen a computer at the time. I drove to work one morning to find the place in an uproar. The night before a thunderstorm had rolled through and a bolt of lightning had hit the telephone pole in our parking lot. It blew the top six feet off the pole and then got into the telephone lines. Part of the bolt traveled down a line to a nearby building, burning out the line and blowing a hole in the wall of the building. The bolt also went down to the guard shack at the base of the telephone pole and exploded the phone in the shack; parts were blown all over the shack. The worst happened when the main force of the bolt traveled through the lines to the main switchboard, where they blew apart $30,000 worth of switches. When I got there, I found smoke and melted plastic still flowing out of the switch and immediately killed the electric to the building. Hell of a mess!
I am in the early stages of my next story, with maybe half written after a total rewrite of many chapters when one of my technical editors pointed out some issues. I won't be giving out any hints about it, but there is a definite science fiction element to it, something I have never attempted before. Not sure how that is going to work out. It probably won't be published until the summer.
I have updated the version of the story on Bookapy, uploading a version with the typos fixed. I don't know how long it takes to work through their system, so you might want to wait until tomorrow to download your updated version. Many, many thanks to all who bought the book.