Yesterday, when I posted this survey, I didn't think I'd be saying this:
Wow. I came THAT close !!!!

When I got home from work today my machines were all down.
We'd had a lightning storm while I was at work.
I got 4 machines back up and going but my workstation OS is shot.(Win$)
I am SO glad I did those backups yesterday.

My documents and DC files and photo library are all OK on backup.
I'll use Linux to strip out my email from what's left of the c-drive and then decide whether I want to risk Win$ again.
All the Linux machines recovered themselves perfectly.

If you haven't done a backup lately just ask yourself how much data you are willing to lose?
It takes just minutes and saves many hours of re-work and heartache (not to mention family upset :roll

This is one co-incidence I won't be forgetting very soon.
PHEW !