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Me Mam (and now Mr C) always used to insist that we turn off the telly and pull out the aerial cable during a storm.
Should I do the same with the PC?
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
Hmm... Mr C is an expert in probabilistic stress analysis in serious engineering thingies...
I might stick with his assessment.
Stats is fine until you're the 1 in a million...
See you in 1/2 an hour....
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
I would wager most people don't disconnect their tellies when there's a storm.
What are the data like for people who got hurt or killed by lightning strike through their tellies or PCs
I keep an old PCB in my study from a PC of mine that was about 200 yards away from a lightning strike. Where the chip should be is a small black hole... It also blew my Belkin surge protector (and they paid up immediately, bless 'em).
Me Mam (and now Mr C) always used to insist that we turn off the telly and pull out the aerial cable during a storm.
Should I do the same with the PC?
Put a biscuit tin on yer head.
It wont protect you from a strike, but statistically, no Briton wearing a biscuit tin, has ever been struck by lightning
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