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Went on and on for 20 minutes and HUGE thunders! Pretty scary.
I know, some of you folks have been thru much worse with the monsoons in the Sounth East, but this was pretty wild. I shut down all electrical appliances and hopefully it's on its way east now...
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i was hit lost TV and puter glad was covered under warranty.
circuit city's warranty covers all except if i pour water in to TV, and dell was very good new mobo and thats cool
i now have the cable going through a high end surge protector as thats how i got hit equipment that is.has guaranty to replace any damaged systems
the lightening was so intense and often it turned night into day. their was enough ambient electricity that the red led on my answering machine would glow, then the flash, then thunder. my answering machine became a lightening detector. at first it was cool; then unnerving waiting for the flash after the red led came on. I shut it off, it became too weird.
but I wonder if FIOS is immune to line surges like that.I guess that's a question for Wayne.
all aerial and ug wiring (phone, cable, electric) outside the home SHOULD have some form of lightening protection. a near or direct hit can flash-over and enter home wiring. also at risk: hard wired phones, antenna phones, etc. wells, plumbing, water heaters, etc. taking showers, baths, etc. usually intense nearby lightening does not last long. I've worked in cable, phone, and electric industries. basic rule: 'when in doubt, take it out'
It's impossible for a fios cable to carry a lightning surge.
I run off the battery during a storm. I suppose lightning could take out my router, but that's not that big a ticket item.
Evie 
Some of us DO have a need to be on the computer for work. Nice to be able to do so whether I need to or choose to.
they could surf in the worst T/storm imaginable as long as they had fios and a wireless laptop??
I've got this image stuck in my mind of Igor pecking and poking on his laptop as he plays online poker on the roof of Frankenstein Castle after sending up the Kites.....LMAO.
Oddly enough, although we had a lot of problems with electric surges in storms out here in CT, and I've (stupidly probably) never unplugged a thing, I only ever had the transformer on our furnace blown out TWICE!
We got hit once hard enough for the main circuit breaker to the house to trip -- while we were away during a heatwave, an episode we still refer to as the "great thaw" (coming home to a hot/muggy home with a thawed freezer full of meat AIN'T fun!).
Peck ... poke 
Evie
actually a bit farther north towards Pittsburgh is where it normally goes but we got brushed by a short gully washer about 10 minutes ago (knocked out satellite signal for a bit).
grim
However when I wrote the message a big bang came down here in NYC and I had to unplug everything again. It's cool now though.
Some impressive light and thunder, but unfortunately didn't cool things off as much as I'd hoped. At least it's below 80 now, about 77 here past midnight.
the first one scared the bejabbers out of the dog. After that just some grumbles and a lot of rain.
The storms were "pop-ups". and one sat over my area for almost 2 hours without moving. Drenching rains, constant thunder and lightning, and very high winds. Some claps shook the house.
But something I had not seen before --- the wind would sometimes blow in a circle!
Better belive that sent me to the protected area of my house.
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