Lightning again, ffs!

[TG]

Third time in 2 months my house has had a nearby lightning strike.

This time it hit my electric fence. Huge shower of sparks, and it broke one of the strands.

I had unplugged my brand new cordless phone (to replace the previous one that was taken out by lightning) - but the base unit and the power brick got fried by a surge. Lost my server's monitor, and my wife's UPS is screwed.

*sigh*

I'm getting sick of this crap.

[gus]

You should move to Cape Town. Here lightning is so rare, they hide under the beds when it happens.

Sorry to hear about the damage.

[TG]

And to top it all off, my ADSL is dropping every 5 minutes. Grrr!

I think water got in somewhere it wasn't supposed to - like last time. Took ages to come right.

[TG]

Last time I my house got struck, I accidentally left my cordless phone base unit plugged in, so that and the adsl filter got fried. Fortunately I had a spare filter.

This time, I was conscientious enough to unplug the phones as well as the ADSL line, but the base unit got fried by a power surge, and it caused the unplugged ADSL filter to fry as well.

I can't win!

*sigh*

Oh well. Off to buy a few 1000VA UPS's tomorrow.

[Singit696]

I remember those thunder storms...rather scary sometimes. Sorry to hear about your loss

[Alluvium]

yeah come to cape town. we dont have electrical storms... come to think of it we dont have electricity period

[rainy]

Well, if anyone needs it, I have a spare ADSL filter lying around here...

[Megnut3025]

Last time I got struck,

Hey Tg, You should really be careful how you word this because when I first read it I thought you had gotten struck...which would explain all of that strange behaviour we have experienced from you lately.

Shame man, that really is a nasty one. Thankfully we do not experience much lightning down here in P.E. but I know that often when I phone my mom in Jhb, then she can't talk because of the bad storms.

Hope you get everything sorted out soon (& at half price!) so that we can have you back on the field

[stoke]

Lets see ... 20m lightning rod installed = around 3500 bucks.
Na ... far too simple a solution ...

[Ruslan74]

the last time i got en-lightened was in Moz... our flat got struck on the top of the building and lost my UPS... only the next morning did i go outside to see bricks missing from where it struck... barely 6 metres away from my room... eish.