My husband and I own a small computer store.
Lightning strikes have brought several customers to us. Sometimes there is
only minor damage and sometimes it wipes out the entire system.
Make sure during electrical storms you shut down your computer, disconnect
everything that plugs into the wall - especially the modem. Stay off your
phone during a lightning storm.
Don, I don't know if the tree knocked out the phones or if the lightning
went through a wire underground, but we had a customer who had substantial
damage from a lightning strike that happened across the street from his
office. It traveled through a cable that went under the street.
Carol Heltebrake-Gammel
Mamabear(a)red-bear.com
http://www.red-bear.com/heltebrake/
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From: Dlkgen(a)aol.com [mailto:Dlkgen@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 5:28 AM
To: OHGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [OHGEN-L] Slow recovery
Thought I should let you know what happened here, and why action is not
being
taken on the Van Wert page.
Three weeks ago Norton Utilities caused my computer to crash. Norton does
not
warn owners to not test the rescue disk on partitioned drives. However,
using
NU, I was able to get the computer to cripple along.
Then, last Sunday, lightning struck a tree across the street from me, and
along with it took out my office telephone to which the computer is attached
and "toasted" the modem. We had to reformat the disk and this action
deleted
all files and programs. So, I am re-installing programs and files, luckily
most of the files were backed up.
So, those of you who have sent queries please understand that they will be
uploaded or looked up as soon as possible.
Don Kear
County Coordinator
www.rootsweb.com/~ohvanwer/
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