A lot of stuff, even on surge protectors when it happened. I live in S.FL so lightning / surges are very common, it's just a matter of time. Nothing is safe unless it's unplugged.
A tree was hit outside my home one time, lightning went through the tree, and apparently through the roots which ran under my driveway and at one point it had enough power to blow a chunk of concrete upwards. My car was parked on the driveway and the engine control module was damaged.
Inside the house, it got an answering machine (this was a few years back, now I use voicemail), a receiver, and a few other things that I can't remember. I remember the answering machine because the problem was not immediately noticible... it'd work fine until it came time to end the call / hang up, whereby it would remain off-hook and cause the lines to go dead.
I would go around the house and unplug the phones each time and when I was done everything would work again, until the next time the ans.machine answered. Of course, I was rarely home when it answered... so... anyway... I figured it out after a few days.
I've lost stuff since, a modem here and there, routers, a motherboard, etc. I have my PC's on UPS but the surges still get through sometimes.
A tree was hit outside my home one time, lightning went through the tree, and apparently through the roots which ran under my driveway and at one point it had enough power to blow a chunk of concrete upwards. My car was parked on the driveway and the engine control module was damaged.
Inside the house, it got an answering machine (this was a few years back, now I use voicemail), a receiver, and a few other things that I can't remember. I remember the answering machine because the problem was not immediately noticible... it'd work fine until it came time to end the call / hang up, whereby it would remain off-hook and cause the lines to go dead.
I would go around the house and unplug the phones each time and when I was done everything would work again, until the next time the ans.machine answered. Of course, I was rarely home when it answered... so... anyway... I figured it out after a few days.
I've lost stuff since, a modem here and there, routers, a motherboard, etc. I have my PC's on UPS but the surges still get through sometimes.
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