Sony Flat Screen T.V. Set Problems

Tonight our flat screen t.v. set sent off 2 large bright sparks & then I smelled smoking wires & even saw some smoke coming from the t.v. set! I chatted with a sony representative & he told me to contact sony & gave me a number. But last night we had a terrible thunder storm & even though my husband says that we have an expensive power surge protector on the set I have a sneaky idea that the electrical storm we had blew the t.v. out! Does anyone have a similar situation happen to their sony sets before? If so I'd sure like to hear about it. We live in Pa!