most stressful and loneliest two hours

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the computer was on since 3pm and i didnt go out to the amusement park or to the mall to do some last hour shopping with siblings. i just wanted to stay at home. although i am all alone, because my daughter and her husband and their kid went to bukidnon, about 5 hours from my place to spend the new year. they wanted me to come along but i didnt want to leave the house. and my husband being away and working abroad and i know that he will be online later to be with me, the house felt like a ghost house with just me and my dog. so i started cooking for the noche buena at 5:30pm. the rain outside have started pouring very hard. while in the middle of my cooking, i remembered i have not closed the window beside the computer. my heart was racing because i knew the rain would get in and might wet the computer. i discovered the cpu cover already wet. the monitor didnt show anything but a white background. my God! i was starting to panic. but i remembered to pull the plug first before holding the computer. i pulled towels, shirts.. anything i could hold on to to dry it up (it wasnt really soaked and dripping but it was wet alright.) i opened the cpu cover and checked if the water got in. the floor of the cpu inside was wet so i placed small dry towels, checked if any other part was wet but seems only the floor. then i opened the electric fan and pointed the air from it into the inside of the cpu. i was praying at the same time hoping the computer is still fine. it was like that for an hour and a half making sure all the inside was dry when i plug the computer back on. then here comes. i plugged .. start up.. and it stopped. it said on the monitor "trapped" and so many numbers and characters. i said to myself, this is it. its destroyed. my tears starting to fall. i restarted the computer. again and again it came out "trapped". i pulled ALL the plug again and and placed it back and restarted again.. two long hours i kept doing that: pulling the plugs, placing it back and restarting. then the windows xp logo appeared. i sat weak my knees were trembling and cried. cried because i am happy i will be able to talk with my husband online. time in our lives when we get stressed over something and then hope starts to dwindle but you dont surrender. it becomes the loneliest times until hope starts to show up again. did it ever happen to you? any situation in life similar to mine? would you like to share? ann