thunderstorm damages!

From: CELang <CELang_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat Jul 14 21:14:39 2001

Yes. The control board in my Dad's garage door opener was killed by a close
lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:00 PM
Subject: thunderstorm damages!


>I've been accumulating the damages from a recent thunderstorm. Wow!
>Originally I thought
>it was just a GFI breaker and the phones. But it turns out that a
>computer got hit (just a PC),
>and the cable box as well as a TV. I'm making a list (8 entries so far).
>Thank God my bro-in-law
>here in Maryland gave me a surge supressor that I put on my SWTPC. Makes
>me think I need
>more of those things.
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>Anyone else have such an event happen? Also, take this as a warning to
>protect you most valuable
>possessions. I intend to get a few more surge suppressors to protect
>stuff. This is the one and only
>time that this has happened to me, and I'm felling lucky.
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>Eric
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