Worse than the tidal wave, worse than the monkeys messing up the research table, but sort of a combination of both: pet knocks over full cup of coffee, shorting out your laptop thereby stranding all your little villagers permanently. At 9 pm on Christmas eve when there's no chance until Tuesday to find out if my hard drive is recoverable and it's just the processor that's shorted or whether everything's truly dead.

Not a very happy Christmas on my version of Isola! Thanks to LDW for backup downloads / registration keys, so that I can start a new game on my desktop PC. It would have been the real crowing blow if I had to pay again, having only bought the game 3 days ago.
--Kathryn in Va