sappatoti
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Joined: 10/30/2006 From: the edge of darkness... Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: KMsAngel pass on hugs from me too please tell her to get a mac!! Ditto from me on the hugs. Um... K... my Mac tower's power supply is fried, it's UPS had its batteries and inverter circuits blow up, and the circuit breaker in the box are melted from last night's lightning barrage. Even Macs aren't immune from damage or destruction when the power circuits they're attached to take direct hits from lightning. We got directly hit twice within 30 seconds last night. The first one was soaked up by the lightning arrester installed by the power company, but because it's a manual reset job, I couldn't get to it before the second bolt struck (it's installed on the power meter outside of the building), the lightning discharged through the building's electrical system. Apparently, my Power Mac was the chosen path. Well, that and the A/C circuit too. It was some seriously powerful and frequent lightning we had yesterday afternoon and into the night. They don't call Central FL the lightning capital of the US for no reason.
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