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Hi
I'm getting tired of this.
A year ago we got hit by lightning and it took out my computer, router and dish box.
I got a lot more careful since then, so when I heard that thunder during the night I came down stairs and disconnected my master plug, I have one plug that unplugs everything computer related.
That means printers, monitor, sound system, scanner, router etc.
I also disconnected my computer from the router.
I would have disconnected the router from the cable but the Comcast guy came by a week ago and said he was picking up interference coming from our house.
He turned on a detector and it screeched loudly.
He then tightened the cable connector on the back of the router with a wrench and the noise stopped.
You probably see this coming, because the connection was tight I couldn't take the cable off with my fingers as I have done in the past, so I left it connected.
So this morning my wife stepped out the front door when BAM!, lightning strike in the road about a hundred feet in front of out house.
It sounded like it hit the house it was so loud, the whole house shook,but she actually was looking and saw if hit.
And you guessed it, it fried our router.
At least we get good service from Comcast, the service guy just left and a new router is up and running again.
Pretty good only 5 hours from the time I called them.
Had to put new IDs in the laptop and iPad but every thing is online again.
Anyway my point is...
It really is a good idea to unplug your computer and everything connected to it from the electrical grid, as well as the cable coming into your house during electrical storms.
I've been hit 3 times so far, and the reason that I got it so bad a year ago was that I wan't home to unhook when it happened.
So it may be worth looking at the weather forecast before you go away from home too.
I just called our friends who live near us and told them to disconnect everything before they go on vacation next week.
There are more sever storms forecast for later today, the weather has been really bad lately.
The year we had snow on the ground for 6 months, that never happens.
It only finally disappeared a few of weeks ago.
Mike
I'm getting tired of this.
A year ago we got hit by lightning and it took out my computer, router and dish box.
I got a lot more careful since then, so when I heard that thunder during the night I came down stairs and disconnected my master plug, I have one plug that unplugs everything computer related.
That means printers, monitor, sound system, scanner, router etc.
I also disconnected my computer from the router.
I would have disconnected the router from the cable but the Comcast guy came by a week ago and said he was picking up interference coming from our house.
He turned on a detector and it screeched loudly.
He then tightened the cable connector on the back of the router with a wrench and the noise stopped.
You probably see this coming, because the connection was tight I couldn't take the cable off with my fingers as I have done in the past, so I left it connected.
So this morning my wife stepped out the front door when BAM!, lightning strike in the road about a hundred feet in front of out house.
It sounded like it hit the house it was so loud, the whole house shook,but she actually was looking and saw if hit.
And you guessed it, it fried our router.
At least we get good service from Comcast, the service guy just left and a new router is up and running again.
Pretty good only 5 hours from the time I called them.
Had to put new IDs in the laptop and iPad but every thing is online again.
Anyway my point is...
It really is a good idea to unplug your computer and everything connected to it from the electrical grid, as well as the cable coming into your house during electrical storms.
I've been hit 3 times so far, and the reason that I got it so bad a year ago was that I wan't home to unhook when it happened.
So it may be worth looking at the weather forecast before you go away from home too.
I just called our friends who live near us and told them to disconnect everything before they go on vacation next week.
There are more sever storms forecast for later today, the weather has been really bad lately.
The year we had snow on the ground for 6 months, that never happens.
It only finally disappeared a few of weeks ago.
Mike