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Lightning has struck!
This morning we had the worst thunderstorm in 15 years! 
Two lightning bolts struck simultaneous.
One of the bolts struck a Pine in the forest behind the house across our street.
The bolt gouged out a big chunk of the tree.
That bolt moved to the electric wires feeding all the hoses on that side of the street and effectively killed the electric feed and everything that was not shielded.
From the house nearest ours it moved alongside the phone lines and killed on of our modems, one analogue cordless phone and the base station to our two other digital cordless phones (and possibly one of the two cordless phones) and lastly our ?phone number shower? (I don?t know the exact English name for the device).
The other lightning bolt struck the neighbourhoods big satellite dish feeding the television cable and possibly also killed most of the TV sets and VCR?s connected to it.
We were not connected to it because it was too expensive at the time it was new (10 years ago).
When the first bolts started to rain down (I counted 20 flashes under an hour) I was ripping the phone and electric cords out of the wall in my room.
And when I was a meter or so from the digital phones in our main corridor the ac adaptors blew in a display worthy an approval from ILM (Industrial Light and Magic).
I rushed past (There was no reason to yank the cords since I was pretty sure it wouldn?t matter anymore) and ripped out the cords under my mothers computer desk.
But I was to late, the computer and printer was OK but the modem was literally burned.
On my way back to my room I removed the antenna cord from our digital terrestrial receiver.
At the time I thought it was broken as well because of all the blue sparks flying from everything metallic?.
I could smell ozone!
The most important survived: My Modem!
In reality we were lucky since the lighting only travelled in to our house through the phone cord!
I can only vouch for the past 15 year but my father has talked to my grandfather and he says that a lightning bolt hasn?t stuck nearer than a mile from us in 50 years time!
Two lightning bolts struck simultaneous.
One of the bolts struck a Pine in the forest behind the house across our street.
The bolt gouged out a big chunk of the tree.
That bolt moved to the electric wires feeding all the hoses on that side of the street and effectively killed the electric feed and everything that was not shielded.
From the house nearest ours it moved alongside the phone lines and killed on of our modems, one analogue cordless phone and the base station to our two other digital cordless phones (and possibly one of the two cordless phones) and lastly our ?phone number shower? (I don?t know the exact English name for the device).
The other lightning bolt struck the neighbourhoods big satellite dish feeding the television cable and possibly also killed most of the TV sets and VCR?s connected to it.
We were not connected to it because it was too expensive at the time it was new (10 years ago).
When the first bolts started to rain down (I counted 20 flashes under an hour) I was ripping the phone and electric cords out of the wall in my room.
And when I was a meter or so from the digital phones in our main corridor the ac adaptors blew in a display worthy an approval from ILM (Industrial Light and Magic).
I rushed past (There was no reason to yank the cords since I was pretty sure it wouldn?t matter anymore) and ripped out the cords under my mothers computer desk.
But I was to late, the computer and printer was OK but the modem was literally burned.
On my way back to my room I removed the antenna cord from our digital terrestrial receiver.
At the time I thought it was broken as well because of all the blue sparks flying from everything metallic?.
I could smell ozone!
The most important survived: My Modem!
In reality we were lucky since the lighting only travelled in to our house through the phone cord!
I can only vouch for the past 15 year but my father has talked to my grandfather and he says that a lightning bolt hasn?t stuck nearer than a mile from us in 50 years time!
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