DELAND, Fla. -- Part of DeLand's city hall is now up and running after lightning struck it's air-conditioning system over the weekend, but they're still dealing with the heat.

  • National Lightning Safety Awareness Week
  • No safe place to be when it’s thundering outside
  • Avoid electrical equipment, plumbing and stay away from windows/doors
  • Wait 30 minutes after last rumble of thunder to go outside again
  • RELATED: DeLand City Hall closed due to lightning strike

From Volusia to Brevard to Orange County, it was a stormy weekend and this week coincides with National Lightning Safety Awareness Week.

Only a portion of city hall was open Monday, and even that has been delayed.

Maria Andretta, a city hall employee, now sits steps away from a portable air conditioning unit.

"Its normally very, very cold in here," Andretta said.

Andretta helps customers get their building permits on the first floor of the DeLand City Hall.

But she returned to work Monday with temperatures in the upper 80s into the 90s after the city says lightning struck a box on the outside sometime over the weekend.

The entire three story building's AC system was the casualty.

Although crews worked around the clock over the weekend, the second and third floors of city hall won’t open until Tuesday.

"It took out an entire building; lightning can do some freak things, but it's all going to get fixed, and we'll be up and running in no time," said Chris Graham, communications specialist.

Portable air conditioning units were rolled in throughout the day. Ten were placed on the first floor, and five on the second and third floors.

The city has extended current utility bill due dates through Wednesday to give them some extra time to deal with the closure.

Lightning caused a house fire in Port St. John in Brevard County on Saturday. The strike causing damage to the rear of the home but no one was hurt.

A woman was struck by lightning and sent to the hospital on Saturday in Palm Bay. And in Rockledge on Friday, a lightning strike sent another person to the hospital.

Just east of the Azalea Park area in East Orange County, firefighters responded to a house fire on Friday from another lightning strike.

There were no injuries there.

DeLand officials said if your utility bill is due today or tomorrow, you’ll now have until Wednesday to hand that over.

Reporter Brittany Jones contributed to this story.