[ale] Off the Wall

[Leonard Thornton]

Let me reiterate what Steve is saying here from personal experience......

Two years ago my family went to the beach for a week.  Upon returning home at 
midnight on Sunday night, I noticed that things just did not look right.  
Turn out we had been the victims on a direct lightning hit.  We were very 
fortunate the house was still standing.

As it turns out, lightning struck a pine tree 30 ft from my front door.  The 
boly went down the tree, through the roots.  In the process, it blew a piece 
of root 3 feet long out of the ground, some 40 feet through the air onto the 
roof of my house.  The bolt continued under my driveway (leaving what looked 
like a mole trail of pushed up concrete), under my garage until it came up 
through the laundry room floor (solid concrete....it blew a 4 inch diameter 
hole through a 6 inch thick floor) and cooked my (BRAND NEW) washing machine.

>From there it proceeded to randomly toast items in the house including the 

satellite receiver in the den (but not the TV), The TV in the bedroom (but 
not the satellite receiver), the garage door opener and it blew the phone off 
of the kitchen wall.  It did NOT touch a single one of my 6 PC's, all up, 
running and NON-SURGE PROTECTED.......

My point?  Lightning is random.  It will fry what it wants to and leave the 
rest.  As long as you have 1.) BACKUPS and 2.) INSURANCE, you really can't do 
much else except 3.)PRAY......


On Tuesday 18 December 2001 03:45 pm, sangell at nan.net wrote:
> I have witnessed  a single strike in the past which hit a basketball goal on
> a small building, went thru the wooden siding, hopped onto a 110 insulated
> electrical wire(yes thru the insulation) blew out 3 lightbulbs and at the
> next bend in the cable, blew out the insulation, burnt through the wire and
> hit a galvanized water pipe where it then was grounded and stopped.
> Lightning is a powerful force. To expect to contain it is just another
> example of man trying to control something that was not meant to be
> controled. By the best protector you can find with regards to insurance
> associated with it and then hope you never need to use it. BTW chances are
> you will never need either......but you will sleep better when a storm
> rolls thru.
>
> Just MHO!
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>                     12/18/2001           Subject:     [ale] Off the Wall
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> I am trying to protect my new tv and pc from lightning over the coax what
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> the best way othere then unpluging to prevent the strikes from coming over
> the cable line
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Leonard Thornton
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