TID: InterEcho 1.19 6E030205


MSGID: 1:19/33.0 26e0411c 
Drew,

DK>Best of luck to all of you.  Hope it all gets cleared up soon.  And good luc
DK>with the BBS.  I lost an Atari Falcon a few months ago to a thunderstorm (I
DK>run the BBS on real Atari hardware).  Fortunately, I had another Atari to
DK>transfer the BBS to but still...  keep safe.  You and the computer. ;)

  Rumor has it when they first built the apartments where I live now, over 40
years ago as a prototype...to save money, they apparently didn't install
grounding rods. Lightning dances around here like an ungrounded Faraday cage
during thunderstorms.

  One time, it hit a metal grate in the sidewalk, not feet from the front
door!! Another time, it hit the tree on the southwest side of my apartment
building (4 apartments per building). A glitch in the alarm system wiring
caused damage to the alarm system (which has since been fixed), but I had
everything that I could disconnect "unplugged".

  Yet, people in my building, and adjacent buildings, were taking electronic
appliances of all sorts (computers, radios, TV's, stereo sets, home
entertainment centers, DVD/VCR units, microwave ovens, etc.) by the truckload
out to the dumpster...as the surge had spread out so wide!!

Daryl

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