Post-power surge question. Please help.

I just had a power surge and my G5 iMac shut off. However, my external hard drive did not. I restarted my computer and the external hard drive is not appearing on the desktop. I don't know what to do. Should I simply shut off the external hard drive and restart it? I would really like not to tank the external hard drive. We're supposed to getting high winds tonight from Hurricane Earl, so I need to get this straightened out rather quickly so I can shut everything down properly.
I will appreciate any help or suggestions.

It's likely that the external drive isn't 'mounted' and also possible that any firmware in the drive (depending on the model) may be wedged. A simple restart (power off, then back on) will probably solve the problem. If you're worried the Mac really did mount the drive but just isn't showing it on the desktop, you can check.
Open "Disk Utility" -- it's in the Applications -> Utilities folder. The left margin of Disk Utility will show all local drives and filesystems visible to the Mac whether the filesystems are actively mounted or not.
If the external drive does not show up in Disk Utility's list, then the filesystem isn't mounted. Power off the drive. Wait several seconds to allow it to spin down. Then power it back up. It should appear on the Mac after a short delay.
If the external drive is formatted with an HFS+ "Journaled" filesystem, your drive should be fine (no corruption) even though it suddenly lost power. If it happened to be in the process of performing a 'write' (e.g. saving a file) then that file may be incomplete, but the drive & filesystem itself should be fine.

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Ok, I found an Enermax 350w that I can afford, but it's only 350w, yet is has 26A on the 12V line. It's specs are:
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One thing though, don't try running a large amount of internal peripherals (Hard drives, cd rom drives, dvd drives etc.). If you do you will need more watts
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