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07-08-2011, 02:40 PM
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I have just spoken to my sister who has recently had a lightning strike, it came through the telephone cables and blew up her (and her neighbours) new computer and phones, and knocked out the sky dish!

I don't think I will stay on the phone if there is a storm.

We always worry because our house is Victorian and has huge chimneys which used to have a lightning conducter fitted rumour has it that our local scrap metal dealers stole it, along with all the drain covers they could find (houses were empty for 4 years before we bought them).
Like I said MM . . . no amount of protection will save your home in the event of a direct strike . . . It's old mother natures way of letting us know we're only tennants on this planet.
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08-08-2011, 07:19 AM
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When we have thunder storms I tend to go for a walk and clear my head with the freshness of the air, plus I enjoy it, nothing like seeinf fork lightning stike the ground.

Never bother switching off TV or Computer. I have a dedicated filtered socket for the computers.
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08-08-2011, 10:33 PM
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I love storms we don't seem to get them mcuh now
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08-08-2011, 10:41 PM
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AB, you actually go out and walk in them? Brave man! Seaspirit, you're welcome to as many of ours as you can have.....
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09-08-2011, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom ->
AB, you actually go out and walk in them? Brave man! Seaspirit, you're welcome to as many of ours as you can have.....
DM, you can not help but feel as one with mother nature when you are out walking in what she sends, beit Rain, sun, thunder.
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09-08-2011, 07:44 AM
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I love storms we don't seem to get them mcuh now
Just as well darlin' - a house further along the coast to the west of me was struck by lightning last night and destroyed.
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Crickey Moses.
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09-08-2011, 03:37 PM
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DM, you can not help but feel as one with mother nature when you are out walking in what she sends, beit Rain, sun, thunder.
That's a side of Mother Nature I don't want to get close to; I prefer her Dr. Jekyll side, warm, sunny, gentle breezes!
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12-08-2011, 01:13 PM
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ooooooo errrrrrrr, I have never even thought of switching things off. Luckily we don't get very many thunderstorms here.
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13-08-2011, 10:52 AM
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It's a habit I've inherited from my mother I'm afraid.......

She was so terrified of thunder storms she used to hide in the cloakroom under the stairs....

I also have to unplug everything when we go away on holiday and triple check doors,windows,etc.......A touch of OCD me thinks....lol....
 
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