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Lightning strike

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  1. DaveGunter

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    No dish either. Just cable.
     
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    is it possible the strike caused a rapid expansion of the water thus its a large crack in the bark and none was blown off? Just a theory?
     
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    I have whole house surge protection. The unit is installed in the circuit breaker box. I also have additional surge protection for most of my computers and some other electronics. I use only cordless phones. We had a hit once that fried an electronic organ and the air pump for our Sleepnumber bed.
    You can ck that out by looking at both raw edges. Do hey line up like a puzzle does? If not, I would suggest looking further away from the tree. That bark could have been shot off the tree just like a cannon shooting. I have seen white pine with multiple trunks from one base which had exploded from a lightning strike. The one I saw did have some char on it because it caught fire.
     
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    I have seen hunks of a pine from a lightning strike 50-75 foot from the tree. That stuff can blow off with some force.

    As far a surge protectors those under the desk strips are not going to do anything when lighting runs into your lines. Those are to control like 10-30v spikes you may get from the power company or something, won't do anything for direct lightning strikes.

    When I was a boy and at my grandma's house she would turn off the TV and unplug it and anything else of value easy to get to in the house to keep from being fried.

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    Good the gang didn't get hurt at the 40 second mark of the vid Dad. :yes:
    But by the look of them ya know they were wondering what the hell just happened?:hair: :coldone:
     
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    My mother would do the same. She would turn off all the lights, close all the inside doors, grab her pocketbook and sit at the end of the hall with a candle burning while she prayed the rosary. She was deathly afraid of it!
     
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    Us as well here! We actually had an old "Admiral" console TV get toasted! Not to much in the house then in the late 60's That TV was a piece of furniture and must of weight 300lbs.
     
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    I took the video several days later...it was an intense storm so I was in the house, I guess I shoulda unplugged the sensitive stuff, although I am enjoying my new 65" TV:dex: I picked up yesterday, my wife is like :heidi:, do you think it's big enough, I told her I didn't get the biggest one
     
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    I was reading the manual/instructions for a smart power strip I got from my power company.

    It says it is warranted against lightning strikes and they will replace up to $20k . Yea good luck getting that, but I have always heard these things are worthless for lighting. The smart part of this one is that it has on all the time outlets, like if you use it behind a tv. You plug your TV and satellite box into on all the time and other things like surround sound, DVD, vcr, etc into the switched outlets and when you turn the TV off it cuts the others totally off so that they can't have any parasitic load and save you 5 watts an hour or something. Haha. (I can't let my box switch off cause none of my shows would record on the DVR if it was not powered so it has to be on the always on). Which gets me on the parasitic power load people talk about. When I had a working knock of killawatt I used it on things to see the power. People talk about unplugging small stuff to not use power. Our coffee maker, microwave (used some cause of clock but was like a watt or two) and can opener or other devices turned off, even cell phone chargers which they swear use power if plugged in, did not even register one watt when turned off? Those that did like the microwave, were just one or three if I remember right. The amount of hasstle to plug and unplug and the wear on the outlet is more hastlr than it's worth and actually may cost you more in potentially wearing out the plug or cord and having to fix those early.

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    I'm 37 and grew up with a furniture tv with the volume knob that was also on or off. Ours had a red digital number display and push buttons that most of the time didn't work when you hit them or the wrong thing came up. We had a vcr connected and ran it in vcr mode so we could use the remote to change the channel. This was late 80s and early 90s. I think the vcr might of actually been broken but was just on our upstairs tv to use as a channel changer.

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    I "was" the remote channel changer!!! Dad said, Boy go change the channel!!! :rofl: :lol:
     
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    It's not the same one but real close, our old TV looked alot like this one. We were living large after that one died, we got "color"!!! ;)
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    mebbe you can donate that to the Smithsonian! :rofl: :lol:
    Seems like tv has become more complicated than it needs to be? Technology and me go together like oil and water. I want to plug it in and turn it on and not need a PHD to be able to use it! OMG im turning into my father!
     
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    That thing is looooooooooooooong gone! I'm with you on technology even though I had to deal with it much in my military career. I believe the old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"! I was happy for "cable" TV though, we had an antenna on the side of the house with a tower, If my father wanted to watch a Baltimore station, "Colts football" Yes, they were the Baltimore colts at one time, I would have to spin the antenna by hand and face West, That would get us WJZ and I think WBAL. Phila 3, 6 & 10 was North West and New York channel 9 was North East. Once in a real "blue moon" we would get Connecticut WFSB Hartford.
     
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    Same here! :rofl: :lol:
    13" B/W back those days...:eek: my how things have changed...I think they are up to a 32" flatscreen now! :thumbs:
     
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    Nope, my neighbor has a 64" flat screen and I've seen a 76" in the PX exchange. o_O
     
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    I think he meant his parents! Haha

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    :emb: *Noted*... :whistle: