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Phentex

(16,500 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 04:31 PM Aug 2016

My house was struck by lightning Thursday night...

I wasn't home but my husband was here with the dogs. Hit a large tree that sits right next to the house and jumped to the screen porch. Blew off the soffit and bent the frames of two screens. Split a few boards. Blackened the side.

Inside it knocked frames off the wall. We lost one tv, the modem and DVR. And the stupid phone which I hate and want to get rid of anyway.

Missed the rest of the Olympics and closing ceremony. I'm glad I was gone!

AT & T replaced the boxes and got us up and running again this morning.

Musta been some storm.

How did you all make out?

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My house was struck by lightning Thursday night... (Original Post) Phentex Aug 2016 OP
Glad you and your family are ok alfie Aug 2016 #1
Thanks! Phentex Aug 2016 #5
We had strong storms very close, one cable box got zapped. groundloop Aug 2016 #2
Two neighbors had issues... Phentex Aug 2016 #6
We had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. murielm99 Aug 2016 #3
Strange the way it travels... Phentex Aug 2016 #7
We had an intense storm but mostly passed south of here GoDawgs Aug 2016 #4
I had just been complaining about the drought... Phentex Aug 2016 #8

alfie

(522 posts)
1. Glad you and your family are ok
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 05:55 PM
Aug 2016

We have had lots of pop-up storms all around us, a few passing over us. No strikes, thank goodness. (NE Georgia)

groundloop

(12,262 posts)
2. We had strong storms very close, one cable box got zapped.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 10:44 PM
Aug 2016

Hopefully that's all the damage - sometimes with lightning it can take a few days for electronics to die. It doesn't take a direct hit either, just close is enough to induce high voltages in wiring (AND PLUMBING).

murielm99

(31,433 posts)
3. We had the same problem a couple of weeks ago.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 10:44 PM
Aug 2016

Scary. We lost the computer, a TV, modem, phones. Possibly my printer is dead. (I am not sure what is wrong with it), and a light fixture.

GoDawgs

(267 posts)
4. We had an intense storm but mostly passed south of here
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 11:30 PM
Aug 2016

Seemed like the core passed fairplay-foxhall-campbellton-union city area.
Glad to hear no one was hurt in your incident. I'll bet your dogs thought that Hell had come to town!
Rain is desperately needed here but storms not a good way to get it.

Phentex

(16,500 posts)
8. I had just been complaining about the drought...
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 05:30 PM
Aug 2016

We don't have grass but we do have some plants I wanted to keep alive. Just wish we didn't get the rain all at once!

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