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That's a blast from the past - when we were kids in India we were warned never to use the telephone during a thunderstorm - my mom even used to immediately unpl
by webmobdev 4y ago
That's a blast from the past - when we were kids in India we were warned never to use the telephone during a thunderstorm - my mom even used to immediately unplug it, the TV and the refrigerator during such weather.
- yetihehe 4y agoI've had a neighbour which had her computer destroyed by lightning. She bought a new one and disconnected it during all thunderstorms from power. But she didn't disconnect her modem from phone line (it was in 1997). After another thunderstorm, modem stopped working. When I pulled it out, the main modem chip had a nice hole with some copper vapourised near it. So, unplugging telephone in some areas is a good idea. Now my whole town has proper protectors and I didn't have any problems with electric equipment since years.