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List:       computerguys-l
Subject:    Re: Lightning is striking again......
From:       Darrell Hale <halehome () HOME ! COM>
Date:       2001-06-27 12:36:09
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>I was in a house that was attached to a pump house that was struck.  The
>pump house was about 75 feet away and the charge rolled down the electrical
>lines connecting to our house and fried, weirdly, everything that was turned
>on, but not devices plugged in but off. The weirdest part was that it fried
>the AM, but not the FM, of an old stereo unit.

Basic rule of thumb: You can try your best to keep lightning out, but once
it gets inside of whatever it hits, it will do whatever it wants. The "fun"
part is figuring out what that was after it's over.

Darrell


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