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Jack Purdum
I remember a picture (QST I think) of the back of a house that was struck by lightning. The tower was on the left side and it looked like someone had taken black paint and painted perfectly straight lines all over the back of the house. What actually happened was the bolt super-heated the water in the plumbing, exploding the pipes under the pressure, taking the siding off the house like it was a chain saw. Scary.
Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 11:30:15 PM EDT, Matthew Stevens <matthew@...> wrote:
Back in 2012 my next door neighbors maple tree was hit. It ran down the tree into the ground. To the north it ran along the galvanized water line where it blew the water meter and a chunk of the curbing across the street. To the south, it ran towards the house, jumped across the 8¡¯ wide concrete porch into the DOORBELL BUTTON.... blew a 4¡± hole in the concrete block wall, burnt all the interior house wiring (like, black scorched marks on the walls), shattering light bulbs and burning up light switches etc. burned the breaker panel out behind the house. It went from there into the phone line... to the pole in the street where it blew the cover off the 1940s era lead telephone junction box (found that down the street about 30yards). Went into my house via the phone line from that pole, tripped GFCIs in the back of the house, broke two light bulbs in the ceiling, and then through the cable line fried the cable modem-and literally scorched the on-board NIC off the motherboard on my fileserver which was connected directly to the modem/router. So yeah... I have a healthy respect for lightning :-) My radio in the front of the house was unplugged at the time - and fine. Not to say that a nearby strike can¡¯t cause issues even with an unplugged rig. But I think it¡¯s better than leaving it plugged in. At least it makes me feel better even if it¡¯s not accomplishing anything haha. 73, - Matthew nj4y On May 8, 2018, at 16:53, ajparent1/KB1GMX <kb1gmx@...> wrote:
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