So A Bolt Of Lightning Hit My House Last Night...
 

It totally fried my Sky Plus box and now today I finally come to my office to work and my PC is fucked. My modem was plugged into my computer via usb and its fried all my USB ports.

I just called Dell to see what I could do to get this fixed, waiting on them getting back to me.

This sucks balls, my house insurance will cover the damage but I just hope it doesn't take too long to get things fixed.

You can get surge protection for cable, when I moved to Florida, I bought all new supression to prevent just that type of problem.

Of course, that doesn't help you now.

Good luck on a speedy recovery!

Sorry to hear about that.

wow, serious.. got any pics? or is there not much to show

aye good luck with that
then buy your self a decent UPS

Nah no pics, but man the lightning was crazy. Fun to watch... or at least it was till I heard a huge bang then all power to my house went out.

that fucking sucks dude, the odds on that happening are ridiculous

yeah sucks ass. best you can do is make sure everything is grounded and have everything plugged in properly.

that sucks! hopefully everything gets taken care of fast

so via what computer do you connect to us?
Sorry for your PC. We have so many lightning here that we switch off the technics every time. PC, TV, modem.

My main machine is connect directly to my modem via USB. Then my LAN from my modem is connected to my Wireless router.

so you can't switch it off?

I can yes, but I didn't last night.

what are the chances

do you live on a hill or something?

Yeah it was pretty wild last night. Connections and stuff dropped but nowt got fried.

I probably live in the flatest area in my town LOL

I have no idea how it happened, but I just had to go buy a PCI card to get my desktop computer working again. Still need to get it fixed properly. Dell are onto it tho, should be done pretty soon!

I should have unplugged my computer from the wall and the modems. It was silly on my part, but like you say it was crazy, and I just didn't think it would ever happen to my house.

Damn what are the chances.. sorry to hear that

Freaky shit man

Bummer that sucks

[QUOTE=Ross]I probably live in the flatest area in my town LOL
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THen the thunder was great, right?
:)

It was still an amazing storm. Best i've even seen, and apparently the best one here in 25 years.

Does suck though when it fucks shit up...

Sorry to hear about that

fuck lightning

shit! Thunder in Glasgow last night??? it was fine here in Edinburgh!

get some surge protection dude!

cheers
tony

good idea ...

this thread is useless without pics..

things like that really happen sometimes :Oh crap :upsidedow :sadcrying

sorry to hear that, it really sucks to get everything fixed now

atleast you didn't get hit man.

I'm sorry to hear about your experience but good thing is that you're ok.

My computer is all fixed up and on its way back to me. Should get it tomorrow afternoon. Cost $700 tho, fucking Dell know how to get money outta people.

They wouldn't sell me the motherboard I needed, so I had to send it so their engineers would install it and charge me per hour for labour. Fuckers.

Better back up your HDD just in case. This happened to my Dad, lightening hit the AT&T Broadband cable thing and his hard drive died just a few days after they thought everything was fixed. Better safe than sorry.

Doesn't that just suck! You never think your house will get hit by lightning... glad your computer's on it's way back and working.