20 Jun
2009
20 Jun
'09
3:08 p.m.
Greetings,
In fact, we've had some terrible weather. Yesterday morning we had the
heaviest thunderstorm of the year so far, complete with great dark
rumbling skies and pyrotechnical displays of lightning. Lots and lots of
lightning.
Can you tell where this message is going ?
I like to think I'm not utterly deranged, so as a matter of course I
disconnect the power lines to my gear whenever we have a heavy storm.
And so I did this time, except I didn't unplug the cable modem
connection. Well, live and learn, and so I have, to the combined
expense of one modem, one router, and one laptop. (Sounds kinda like a
John Lee Hooker song). I'm actually happy the damage didn't include the
two desktop boxes also connected to the router.
I'll remember that cable connection next time, I promise.
Grumble...
Best,
dp
20 Jun
20 Jun
3:31 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:08:52 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
In fact, we've had some terrible weather. Yesterday morning we had the
heaviest thunderstorm of the year so far, complete with great dark
rumbling skies and pyrotechnical displays of lightning. Lots and lots of
lightning.
Can you tell where this message is going ?
I like to think I'm not utterly deranged, so as a matter of course I
disconnect the power lines to my gear whenever we have a heavy storm.
And so I did this time, except I didn't unplug the cable modem
connection. Well, live and learn, and so I have, to the combined
expense of one modem, one router, and one laptop. (Sounds kinda like a
John Lee Hooker song). I'm actually happy the damage didn't include the
two desktop boxes also connected to the router.
I'll remember that cable connection next time, I promise.
Grumble...
Best,
dp
I'd like to say I have no idera what you mean. Yes, I'd like to, but
unfortunately I've been there too.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
3:51 p.m.
Ugh! Sorry to hear it...
Is the jacket ok?? :)
(even poor humor is better than none, yes?)
R
On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:08:52 -0400
Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Greetings,
In fact, we've had some terrible weather. Yesterday morning we had
the
heaviest thunderstorm of the year so far, complete with great dark
rumbling skies and pyrotechnical displays of lightning. Lots and
lots of
lightning.
Can you tell where this message is going ?
I like to think I'm not utterly deranged, so as a matter of course I
disconnect the power lines to my gear whenever we have a heavy storm.
And so I did this time, except I didn't unplug the cable modem
connection. Well, live and learn, and so I have, to the combined
expense of one modem, one router, and one laptop. (Sounds kinda
like a
John Lee Hooker song). I'm actually happy the damage didn't include
the
two desktop boxes also connected to the router.
I'll remember that cable connection next time, I promise.
Grumble...
Best,
dp
I'd like to say I have no idera what you mean. Yes, I'd like to, but
unfortunately I've been there too.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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6:08 p.m.
Actually, I'm surprised that you guys hadn't
noticed: The jacket had
already been struck by lightning.
ah, thus the smell coming out of my modem :) .
More sincerely, during the last thunderstorms I didn't pull my plugs. Seems I
should better make it a habit again. Hope the loss of some hardware does not
hurt you too much.
Cheers,
ce
6:15 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:48:47PM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Actually, I'm surprised that you guys hadn't
noticed: The jacket had
already been struck by lightning.
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.
10:29 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
No damage
except for some windows broken
I thought windows were broken by default, that why I switched to linux
some nine years ago.
:-)
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Atte
http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk http://virb.com/atte
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