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Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:26 am |
Have just managed to get back on the internet after a week.
A Lightening bolt hit one of the main electricity cables and has taken out every house on the estate.
That is a lot of computers that got blown up!!!
One house has had the plastic telephones melt, the plug sockets blown off the walls, central heating system blew up and the bathroom is black!!
Thankfully no-one has been hurt, I think it has just been a bit of a shock to everyone. |
_________________ oily/acne prone - acne scars on chin area/Large Pores in winter. Oily in Summer. Fair, nuetral/cool complexion, burn easily. Early 20s |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:19 am |
That must have been one h*ll of a bolt!!!! Good to hear you (and your neighbours) are all right!!!! |
_________________ Location: Denmark. Me = 32, think I'm combo without oiliness + sometimes sensitive. Have noticed that skin doesn't heal as quickly anymore and I've developed fine lines around my eyes... Hormonal breakouts which are sometimes cystic. PCOS |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:21 am |
What a scare that must have been! Im glad your all okay though. |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:09 am |
Wow, glad to hear you and everyone else is OK.. We've been hit by lightening twice.. 1st time, it took out my HD, a clock radio and a phone.. 2nd time, the TV..
Now when there is a storm involving lightening {which is most every time here in CO} everything gets turned off..
Glad you're back! |
_________________ Colorful Colorado! Highlands Ranch, a burb south of Denver... |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:21 am |
wow! Glad you're ok Rosebud. |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:23 am |
Blimey, rosebud, that was a pretty drastic thing to have happened.
We had a similar (although, thankfully, less serious) experience a few years ago. It fried our PC, monitor, TV and burglar alarm. Everything else was okay. The sound was the worst - we thought the IRA or someone had set a bomb off nearby. |
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Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:05 pm |
I'm Kiki wrote: |
Wow, glad to hear you and everyone else is OK.. We've been hit by lightening twice.. 1st time, it took out my HD, a clock radio and a phone.. 2nd time, the TV..
Now when there is a storm involving lightening {which is most every time here in CO} everything gets turned off.. |
You need to make sure you don't just turn them off, but unplug them from the wall. Lightening gets them from the outlet, regardless of whether they are on or off. It just makes the damage that much worse when they're on though. The house I grew up in and the one my parents still live in has been hit 4 times! After the 4th I cried and cried and yelled at my dad to get a lightening rod installed. He never did listen though.
The first bolt was the worst since it went through our upstairs bedroom, across the living room and into my bathroom where it hit a nail in the wall. It left a huge black streak across the mirror and we pretty much had to replace all electronics. The second time it hit the tree a few feet from the house and knocked it over and the 3rd and 4th times were within 2 minutes of each other and they both hit our garage. SCARY!!! |
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