Re: [LAU] lovely weather

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:48:47PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: If I were in <your_favourite_god_controlling_lightning>'s shoes it would have been on my list of targets as well... Two weeks ago we had a spectacular thunderstorm in Parma, quite unlike anything I'd seen before. In half an hour the equivalent of two months of rain came down, and the lightning was sort of continuous instead of a stroke every so many seconds. The crane on the building site behing the CdM was hit four times, lost some paint but survived. Up to 40 cm of water of some of the nearby streets. I happened to be at the Casa del Suono - we shut down all equipment, cut the main power and hoped for the best - there's no way to disconnect everything at short notice in such an large installation. No damage except for some windows broken by the thick balls of ice that came down as well. Makes me wonder why we are still using 8-wire electrical network cables - optical should be cheaper today. Ciao, -- FA Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.