An act of God?

An amusing update for anyone who has had the pleasure of speaking to Mosvold switchboard. Last night we had an absolutely enormous thunderstorm and at one point there was a huge crash and a big blue flash. This morning we discovered that the telephone wire had been hit, so there is now no outside line to the hospital. This is making tonight's on call rather quiet, particularly for the lady on switchboard who, despite there being absolutely no phone calls for her to deal with, has remained at her post. What a legend.