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Originally Posted by danielsun
That's shocking news Gary. (pardon the pun) I hope you get get it back on track without it costing too much.
I have often been told that you should unplug every thing during an electrical storm but never really heard of it actually happening till now.
Even though we don't get many electrical storm here in Melb I will definitely be unplugging every thing from now on.
Cheers Daniel
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It's happened to us, 3 times over the years (the lappy I am using and the desktop were settlements), and the people in the house behind us lost every single item of electrical and electronics one night when their TV antenna took a direct hit (I was looking out the window and saw it hit !!! flukey !!! , they had to replace all their white goods, the hotwater service, microwave , some TVs and VCRs and computers and HiFi , cost the insurance company thousands.
I now unplug the computers from the wall when I hear thunder nearby. Not that I wouldn't like a new desktop or lappy , just I want to protect my HDDs.