Re: [CH] Lightning strike
Steve M Duddy (timetiles@icon.co.za)
Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:36:09 +0200
Hey Tony,
My condolences. I've been hit by lightning twice. What a bummer.
Fortunately I've managed to always save the computer but have always had a
lot of other damage, like the security system, the intercom, the video
machine, etc. I feel for you man.
Steve
The Wilderness
South Africa
and yes, for those in the know, the strikes happened when I lived on the
highveldt.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Flynn <tony@nzol.net.nz>
To: Lukasz Electronics <lukasz@midcoast.com.au>
Cc: Chile Heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>; Tara Deen
<tara@es.usyd.edu.au>; <kstober@us.ibm.com>
Sent: 02 September 2000 05:16
Subject: [CH] Lightning strike
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> At 6.15 am Thursday morning I had just written to Tara and Karen. The
> rain which had been falling all night turned to a thunderstorm.
> I shut down but was too late as a lightning bolt brought down the power
> lines outside my house.
> One big bang and the power meter box blew to pieces, fuses blown out of
> their sockets and all the telephone connections zapped.
> It took most of the day to get the telephone and power restored and the
> house wiring checked.
> Then the bad news NO COMPUTER:-( I spent most of Friday waiting for a
> mother board to arrive at my friendly computer dealer mate's place.
> It arrived this morning so with a new power supply, mother board, modem,
> ram. was all running. Arriving home and plugging in error message saying
> no connection to keyboard.
> As my dealer mate has gone away to visit family in hospital. Panic
> around to find computer club member with a spare keyboard to loan me for
> the weekend,
>
> So I will catch up with my mail in time and meantime try to get some
> ground prepared to start planting out summer veggies and peppers.
>
> Tony Flynn
>
> Grandad. Retired at the beach. Bay of Plenty. New Zealand
>
> Hoping his insurance company will pay up?
>