Lightning sucks.

[Suzanne O]

Started to rebuild the data cupboard and found some more evidence...


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Oh geez... a fuse has blown there.
Youch more pain in the pocket! hope your insurance covers that.

 

[Elliott]

Since I have a lot of expensive musical equipment at work. I'm using both a stabilizer and a UPS

 

[Wildcat Media]

Started to rebuild the data cupboard and found some more evidence...

You're lucky in a sense--it could have been so much worse!

 

[MySiteGuy]

Fiber or wireless is definitely a good extra measure, along with offsite backups, and good equipment insurance. Sorry this happened to you, Kier.

I'm using this as a opportunity to audit everything to make sure I don't have any holes in the setup, since it only takes one.

 

[Suzanne O]

Actually getting upgraded from FTTN to FTTP soon. I'm going to have to be extra careful after seeing what happened to @Kier and his data systems.

 

[Suzanne O]

Storms hampering getting upgraded. Boy we had a big one that was nasty.

the pink bits are how severe they were

 

[Suzanne O]

Finally upgraded to FTTP here and the speeds are great.
Now in Autumn it is pouring down rain and a couple of storms, im lucky i didn't get flooded out.
It's just finished raining after starting at 3pm today (it's 11:45pm now)
30 mm of rain.

 

[Nebulous]

Lightning was really bad in my area a couple days ago. I was afraid it was going to strike my house or make the power go out in my neighborhood. Thankfully neither of things happened. My dogs were pretty amped up over it though.

 

[Suzanne O]

Another summer storm that happens to be a big one is still happening here.
I expect it to go on until midnight.
We've had lightning, hail, thunder and rain.

 

[Suzanne O]

That thunderstorm went for 5 hours.

 

[Wing]

That thunderstorm went for 5 hours.

No it didn’t.

 

[Suzanne O]

Severe thunderstorm warning as huge lightning storm rolls in across state

Wind, hail and flash flooding have been predicted.

www.thecourier.com.au

 

[MySiteGuy]

The greater Melbourne area weather history backs her up.

Where I am 5 hours is not unusual, and we have had tornado watches go on for 12+ hours.

 

[Lee]

No it didn’t.

Don’t be a ****

 

[Suzanne O]

No damage done to any data services i have here.
Just had to make sure of everything.

 

[Suzanne O]

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[Opus X]

Where I am 5 hours is not unusual, and we have had tornado watches go on for 12+ hours.

dang must be one gigantic slow moving supercell.
here in east texas i do not remember one single thunderstorm staying over us for 5 or more hours.
much less 12.
we normally have a series of thunderstorms go over us, each lasting from 30 minutes to a little over an hour.
we generally get multiple storm cells passing over us.
yes i played storm watcher for a period of time before health interfered.
if someone had said that storm sytstem went on then that would have been more realistic instead of pointing to one particular cell being static.

 

[Suzanne O]

The greater Melbourne area weather history backs her up.

Where I am 5 hours is not unusual, and we have had tornado watches go on for 12+ hours.

Spot on!

Stay safe mate those must be very scary.

 

[Wildcat Media]

A year and a half ago, it wasn't a storm cell, but we had nearly-constant lightning (with light thunder) and on-and-off heavy rain for several hours. I remember because I had to drive home from the hospital to hook up the inverter/generator to keep things going at the house. Going out at 3am for gasoline in pouring rain wasn't exactly a highlight of my week, in other words!

 

[AdamD]

I remember several years ago when I bought some of the original ethernet over power adapters, I think they were only 250Mbps, so pretty poor performance wise.
We had a storm nearby, you could barely hear it, but these devices were apparently very sensitive to any spikes in the grid?
Both of them went bang, one even caught fire, good thing I was awake when it happened.
Luckily it wasn't near anything flammable, but the wall had a nice burn mark going up it!