Lightning

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[Agent|Austin]

HUGE Thunder storm atm, one hit our deck. hitting the barn next door now. White light fills my room every 10 seconds..

I HATE IT.

Now watching youtube with lights on and blasting music.

[Capt.Bluebeard]

HUGE Thunder storm atm, one hit our deck. hitting the barn next door now. White light fills my room every 10 seconds..

I HATE IT.

Now watching youtube with lights on and blasting music.

Then you wood like a trip in here i think 
Hate Lightning to, burned my servers CPU grrrrrrr

[TerryRussell]

One of the most dangerous things you can do in a thunderstorm is to use electrical equipment that works from the mains. That is equalled by using telecommunications equipment that involves wires, even if they're buried under the ground. If the lightning stirkes the cables (and the ground isn't even there, for the lightning), you can get many millions of volts up your armpits. 

It is on a par with flying a kite with a wet rope into a thunderstorm.

The trouble is that the cables offer one of the best paths for lightning and will get struck out of all proportion, in preference to other objects. If caught in a thunderstorm and there are cables underground and trees nearby, well, you're going to go out with a bang, probably.

If the hairs on your head start to rise, immediately drop flat on the ground. You might just be lucky...

[Agent|Austin]

LOL. I broke my old laptop power adapter in a lightning storm...

[Capt.Bluebeard]

If the hairs on your head start to rise, immediately drop flat on the ground. You might just be lucky...

Tanks for the warning Terry  but i was lucky, just the CPU  the most expensive in the PC, so no more on when I'm not home
Tore

[moonrider]

No problem here, power is cutoff if it starts thundering.
There are things on the market you can buy to prevent damage to youre stuff like pjuters and televisions, The one i use was like 20 euros, but saved me more then that.

Greetz, frank

[Agent|Austin]

We havebsurge protectors for our $10,000 theater room

[Capt.Bluebeard]

No problem here, power is cutoff if it starts thundering.
There are things on the market you can buy to prevent damage to youre stuff like pjuters and televisions, The one i use was like 20 euros, but saved me more then that.

Greetz, frank

Yes, i now they are here in Norway to, why didn't i think about that , thanks for remind me of that, totally forgot that was stuff like that. It's a god thing to haw in this time of the year, it's the thundering season
CB/TJK

[TerryRussell]

Those protectors are definitely worth their weight in gold. 

No wait, that's one of the best conductors of electricity. 

Err.. worth their weight in plastic. 

But, seriously, good though they are, you will not be protected in the event of a close or direct strike to the phone lines or the electricity cables, even if they're underground.

That lightning may have just leapt 10 miles through the sky. The protector is just one more piece of melted metal and plastic as the current sears its way to your heart and makes a lasting impression on your brain via your ears (if you were on the phone at the time).

[Capt.Bluebeard]

   mmmm
well Terry i thing i drag the contacts out when i live my home, thats are the most safes to do i think, and that cost nothing  that is what i use to do, but i forgot the server    this time. Beginning to be old and forget things

[llamalord]

Do you really think your weather is bad.  Just ask Trains and I we live near each other in Massachusetts and there have only been about five days this summer when we haven't had a "severe thunder storm warning."

What a year to buy a boat.

[Capt.Bluebeard]

Do you really think your weather is bad.  Just ask Trains and I we live near each other in Massachusetts and there have only been about five days this summer when we haven't had a "severe thunder storm warning."

What a year to buy a boat.

Sorry shall not complain, haw seen the weather in US when cyclones are over there and the thunder and lightning haw CNN i feel sorry for your bad really bad weather.Hopefully you can use it next year  or move to Norway
TJK/CB

[Agent|Austin]

Just ask Trains and I we live near each other in Massachusetts and there have only been about five days this summer

I KNOW WHY DIDN'T you tell me. One of the biggest ones (your 6'' of rain in an hour) was right after I landed. I was in pembroke for a week, could have met up. :p