Apparently phones and lightning don't mix

Perhaps the only thing that pissed me off more last night than the Rock Star finale was the discovery that the lightning strike from Sunday morning killed my phone. It appears to still work, but there is no dial tone, no ringer and no record of calls made after Sept 10 (lightning day). The only way I even found out that it was dead was when I went to call my friend to complain about Rock Star and heard the tell-tale "you have voicemail" beeps. That's weird, I thought, because there was no record of voicemails on my phone, so I listened to the messages only to discover 9 people had called over the last 4 days, including people I would really have liked to talk to when they called. The strange thing is that while my fancy schmancy Best Buy phone is toast, my $10 London Drugs phone still works (but has virtually no ringer, so I wouldn't have even heard it when it rang). Even if I had bought a warranty from Best Buy (and I didn't, because a few people convinced me otherwise) it may have expired by now anyways, and I'm not even sure if "acts of god" would be covered in repairs. They should, especially in a city like this that has a few storms every week this time of year. Anyways, I'm pissed off, because I have had nothing but phone problems since I moved here - first Telus sucking and now this. Maybe I should resort entirely to email from now on, or messages in bottles.