Re: U.S. Government Censors WWII Veterans Documentary

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From: bearclaw
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:48

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In article <44cfb698.5077265@news.earthlink.net>, hchickpea@hotmail.com 
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>  Hope your homeowners insurance covered at least part
> of the loss. 

Thanks, it was just the DSL modem. There was no structural damamge. 
Everything else was on either a UPS or surge protector. The only reason 
the modem wasn't protected was because I am such a lazy bastard. All I 
had to do was go under the desk and reroute the phone lines through the 
UPS. Sheesh. The price of procrastination. We've got like, six lightning 
rods on the roof.

It is the second time in three months we've been struck. Both times, the 
current entered the house through the phone lines, not the electrical 
lines. The circuit breaker never tripped. 

The first time, the lightning destroyed our cordless phone base station. 
I replaced it with another, more modern phone and this time, bought a 
UPS-suppressor for the circuit. That protected the phone during this 
last strike, but the modem remained completely exposed <ahem>.

It got so fried, the phone line actually welded itself into the jack. I 
heard about that kind of stuff happening, but this is the first time I 
experienced first hand.

I have to return the damaged modem to my provider. I think I'll just 
leave the phone cord attached :-)

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Subject: Re: U.S. Government Censors WWII Veterans Documentary
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