Lightning Strike Blew Up My CPU

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I'm using my roommate's computer to type this in here.

A couple of days ago, we had a wicked lightning storm that was hitting all around the house. I was standing  in the living room and watching the strikes hitting all around the house. It was very exciting because I like the force of nature.

I went back to my computer and the screen was frozen. Naturally I shut the tower off and restarted it but it would not restart. After many attempts, i realized it was futile. It is connected to a surge protecter strip, but I think I know why it still happened.

A couple of weeks ago, they were working on the main road, widening the road, and replacing power cables to a different location. On one particular day, whether it was them or some other reason, the power to the house was turned on and off throughout the day. I would say about 6 or 7 times which obviously shut my computer in the process. I'd have to keep restarting it. I know that it's not good for the tower to get that kind of abuse, and I think that's the reason.

This last lightning strike took it's toll on my tower. My poor tower just couldn't take any more beating...lol. It could be that the power supply or the motherboard is fried up.

One lady I spoke to, said that the same thing happened to her house but worse. It must have hit the house directly because she said just about everything in he house was fried. Thousands of dollars worth. Luckily she had insurance.

I heard many years ago that you should unplug all aplliances and tvs, computers and the such during a storm. I just didn't think it would happen to me...lol

Ironically, I'm going away to school for a month or so, and then going on the road for an indefinite amount of time, putting the computer away anyway.

See you all down the road sometime.

Entry #585

Comments

Avatar Tenaj -
#1
Sorry that happened to your computer dude. Be safe, do good in school, keep hitting those licks and don't be giving people the bird.
Avatar LOTTOMIKE -
#2
be safe.
Avatar csfb -
#3
Sorry about your computer, Pac.   Auf wiedersehen, I know I'll miss you, but be safe and best to you.
Avatar stavros -
#4
Sorry about the computer. Enjoy school, and try to keep in touch with us when you can.
Avatar time*treat -
#5
A good battery backup (uninterruptible power supply) at least 750VA will run you $100 and protect your $2000 Monitor-and-PC investment (and however much your data is worth).
Avatar justxploring -
#6
What are you going to study? Good luck, Pac. Sorry about your experience. I have the best surge protectors and I still lost my TV during Charley. I found out then that it's best to be patient and read a book! :-) I actually thought the hurricane had passed, but it was the quiet before the storm.

If you still have the receipt, most surge protectors come with a lifetime warranty for the cost of the equipment that is damaged. The majority of the time, the lightning travels through the telephone cables, which is why you're not supposed to talk on a land line during a storm. Guess I've been lucky so far with this Belkin Surgemaster.

I wish the City would reimburse people like us. They were working on a project down the street and I must have had 50 spikes or surges in a few hours one night. One time FPL told me it was salt on the lines since we haven't had much rain this year. Sounds like a crock to me.

Keep in touch with LP.
Avatar truecritic -
#7
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

Convoy by CW McCall
Pac - Good luck!

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