🚀 go-pugleaf

In a galaxy far away, "Janis Maria Cortese" once said:
>Just the other day "Karl Denninge" said:
>>>>Lightning is one of those things you really can't protect well against.
>>>Yes, you can.  If an electrical storm comes up, GET OFF YOUR COMPUTER
>>>AND UNPLUG THE DAMNED THING.
>>>Just unplug everything you can.  Nothing is better protection than that.

Well unplugging everything is also not guaranteed to work!

My manager had a case where his house was struck by lighting and it fried all
kings of electronic devices throughout the house including his PC - nothing
strange so far right? Wrong, the PC was physically UNPLUGGED from the socket
as well as the modem was unplugged from the phone line! He just had the PC, and
modem sitting in the middle of the floor, with the wire all coiled up. After
everything else in the house was fried he tried plugging in his PC to be
dismayed that it, too, did not work; nor did the modem (with another PC). 
It seems that all the wire (20-30') hooked to his PC acted as an antenna and
picked up enough electricity from the EMF in the room!

So unplugging it is still not a complete guarantee!!!!
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