[TheForge] lightning

[Jerry Frost]

Sucks to lose all the electronics Kim, glad you weren't hurt or lose your 
house. My Grandmother used to tell the story about lightning striking the 
tree in front of their house in Ohio about a week after they got their first 
phone. Hit the tree, jumped to the phone line on the house, followed it in, 
blew the phone into smokng shrapnel and danced around the kitchen as ball 
lightning lighting various things on fire. The entire family had just sat 
down for dinner when the show started.

Okay, the point of the little family history divergence being the lightning 
didn't follow the power lines in it followed the phone line and both are 
generally carried on the smae poles above ground. Just something to think 
about. . . Or not. <grin>

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim George" <klgeorge at kent.edu>
To: "knife-list Entry" <knife-list at kepler-eng.com>; "theforge Entry" 
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Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 4:48 PM
Subject: [TheForge] lightning


> Had a lightning strike come in through the cable,blew a tv and the
> network card and an other buss in the puter..Had to but both. Now I'm
> pissed at Bill gates because you have to buy all the software
> seperate.
>
> -- 
> Kim George
>
> "Why for you try to bury me in cold,cold ground?"
>     Taz
>