I hope the landlord doesn't mind having big burn marks in their carpet

Because they have one now.
Turns out, lightning struck a main grounding insulator and tripped the transformer fuses, but also destroyed it completely... It also happened to completely destroy the phone line.......
I think I might finally be able to convince the fucking phone company to fix my fucking lines now. I was getting tired of calling home, twice because the first time never connects properly (still charged for a call)
Well. Looks like I need to buy some paint and a new RJ45 wall socket and a phone and a surge protector and more petrol for the generator.
Not my fucking day because the petrol stations are almost out of petrol. Only had premium left, which costs $1.809¢ per litre... Damn prices... For my American friends, there ate 3.85 liters to one US gallon. And our $ is around 0.93 US¢at the moment.