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Re: Bloody Lightning!



Quoting Mark McCall (lists@xxxxxxx):

> Well, we had the mother of all lightning storms across Northern
Ireland last
> night.
>
> As usual it came into our house :(
>
> Luckily I unplugged phones and again the homehighway box has a nice
fried
> smell coming from it.  My Comfort alarm has lost her voice and now
makes a
> nice crackeling noise instead.  And my Sky box is showing that it's
> receiving no signal.  12 hours later we're still without power so I
don't
> know of HomeVision or any of the rackmount stuff is damaged.

My parents have a similar problem with their phones :(

Anyone know if a lightning conductor helps with this sort of thing at all?

James


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