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Always unplug? ...

During an innocent light sprinkle which had been off and on all day without heavy cloud cover, wind, thunder, or lightening, lightening struck a tree near my home. Travelled down into the ground, exploded into a nearby buried gray plastic power cable conduit, jumped onto the ground wire, fried my outdoor light fixture on one end and travelled into the house wiring on the other end. Blew out (as in exploded and shattered) the interior light switch and cover for the outdoor light, scorched the wall and drapes covering the switch, continued on to fry every appliance on that circuit, including a subwoofer amp and power amp which were playing at the time. In the crawl space my cable for TV had a booster plugged in for power which was also on that circuit and next to a phone line jumper box, so ... via cable fried my cable box and TV on one end and exploded the exterior cable connection and cover about 40' into the woods on the other end. Then via phone lines fried my phones, phone lines, answering machine, printer, and computer.

Do I unplug? Ummm ... yes.


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  • Always unplug? ... - woober goober 06:34:23 07/24/12 (2)

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