Had a real scary experience yesterday. I had just got home from work at about 2:00 and was standing in the garage talking with the wife. The weather was turning real bad . . . very dark clouds were overhead and it was just beginning to rain. All of a sudden, there was a huge crack of lightning. I was about 3 feet away from our circuit breaker box and sparks flew out of it. Scared the hell out of both of us. It took us several seconds to realize what had happened and minutes more before we started to assess the damage . . . and there was some . . .
Tripped several breakers in the box,
Tripped all 6 of the GFCI outlets,
Fried my garage door opener,
Fried my cable modem and my internet modem which is also the phone system, (both on surge protectors)
Fried network cards in 3 of the 4 computers in my computer room, (all on surge protectors)
Fried one computer power supply,
Fried all 5 of our portable phones, etc
Thankfully the one computer I've had the longest and the one that I use as a server survived with no damage at all so I'll be able to host the server tomorrow.
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Re: Lightning Strike
Wow...we had a storm couple of days ago and it blew my powerline adapters it looks like ya got it bad but I suppose it could have been worse.. a house a mile down the road from me burnt down luckily they wasn't at home
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Wow Bubba... just glad you and the missus are ok!
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Thank goodness you were both okay.... let us know if we can help getting you set back up.
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Re: Lightning Strike
Bummer 
Handle every stressful situation like a Dog....if you can't eat, hump it, or play with it, pee on it and walk away
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After talking with my neighbors I found out that I wasn't the only one hit. 3 houses on each side of me were hit and suffered a lot worse damage than I did . . . fried TVs, computers, IPads, ceiling fans, garage door openers, just to name a few things.
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Re: Lightning Strike
check the grounding on both your electrical panel and comm box and surge protectors surge protectors surge protectors.