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This is about 30 seconds after lightning hit the telephone pole next
to my house. You can see the smoke still lingering in the air (quite
a bit, probably from burnt plastic from my network cable and from burnt
telephone pole wood. |
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Here's a close up of the phone pole right after the blast...
there are two wires behind it... the blue wire is my network cable; there
is an unused power cable just a few inches toward you in the picture. |
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It hopped onto both as well as firing right into the ground and
making a nice little crater around the phone pole. |
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You wouldn't think it would of jumped to the blue wire, but it did...
as well as taking out the well pump 100 yards away. |
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Looks like the base is pretty trashed up, but the phone company man
didn't seem to care "we just rent them from the power company".
(I think the purple spots on the photo are waterdropplets from the rain
on the camera lens) |
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This was a PC cover I was using to cover a splice I had made in the
cable to protect it from the rain normally. Hum, the cover plates
were ON, now they are blown off... |
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Well, so much for the splice... not to mention the entire cable. |
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Heres where the end of the cable goes into the shop... blown
out of its blue outside cover... this was the case all up and down the
cable... about every five feet. |
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Picture is washed out from the flash, but I think you can get the idea.
This is where one end of the cable goes into the HUB in my house... oddly
I was standing only a few feet away from this when this happened, but from
the thunder I didn't notice it and turned around to go out the door. |
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Nice charred place on my desk. The pieces were actually thrown
across the room, I picked them up and put them up there as I found them
so they wouldn't get my carpet black when someone stepped on them. |
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Nice and melted and blown apart. |
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From the bottom. |
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All the fired equipment. Here you can see the router, which was
sitting right on top of the hub above, so there's a big black burn spot
underneath it. |
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This is where the other end of the network cable terminated in the
shop... charred TPMIM card. I'm holding up a charred end of
one of the cables that went out to the computer. |
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What it looks like as I go through and assess the damage... most computers
wouldn't boot, or had no network access... so I started pulling out network
cards.. where to start... everything is horked.... |
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A bunch of dead 10/100 network cards *sigh*. |
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Phone truck outside my house. |
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Took me under a day, but was able to figure out what was wrong with
all the machines and get them back on line.... with the exception of one
machine which was on during the time doing an install and who's motherboard
is probably fried. Thanks to having a backup router, I'm back on
the internet and uploading these pictures :-) |
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This is about 30 seconds after lightning hit the telephone pole next
to my house. You can see the smoke still lingering in the air (quite
a bit, probably from burnt plastic from my network cable and from burnt
telephone pole wood. |
|
|
|
Here's a close up of the phone pole right after the blast...
there are two wires behind it... the blue wire is my network cable; there
is an unused power cable just a few inches toward you in the picture. |
|
|
|
It hopped onto both as well as firing right into the ground and
making a nice little crater around the phone pole. |
|
|
|
You wouldn't think it would of jumped to the blue wire, but it did...
as well as taking out the well pump 100 yards away. |
|
|
|
Looks like the base is pretty trashed up, but the phone company man
didn't seem to care "we just rent them from the power company".
(I think the purple spots on the photo are waterdropplets from the rain
on the camera lens) |
|
|
|
This was a PC cover I was using to cover a splice I had made in the
cable to protect it from the rain normally. Hum, the cover plates
were ON, now they are blown off... |
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|
|
Well, so much for the splice... not to mention the entire cable. |
|
|
|
Heres where the end of the cable goes into the shop... blown
out of its blue outside cover... this was the case all up and down the
cable... about every five feet. |
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|
|
Picture is washed out from the flash, but I think you can get the idea.
This is where one end of the cable goes into the HUB in my house... oddly
I was standing only a few feet away from this when this happened, but from
the thunder I didn't notice it and turned around to go out the door. |
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|
|
Nice charred place on my desk. The pieces were actually thrown
across the room, I picked them up and put them up there as I found them
so they wouldn't get my carpet black when someone stepped on them. |
|
|
|
Nice and melted and blown apart. |
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|
|
From the bottom. |
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|
|
All the fired equipment. Here you can see the router, which was
sitting right on top of the hub above, so there's a big black burn spot
underneath it. |
|
|
|
This is where the other end of the network cable terminated in the
shop... charred TPMIM card. I'm holding up a charred end of
one of the cables that went out to the computer. |
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|
|
What it looks like as I go through and assess the damage... most computers
wouldn't boot, or had no network access... so I started pulling out network
cards.. where to start... everything is horked.... |
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|
A bunch of dead 10/100 network cards *sigh*. |
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|
Phone truck outside my house. |
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|
|
Took me under a day, but was able to figure out what was wrong with
all the machines and get them back on line.... with the exception of one
machine which was on during the time doing an install and who's motherboard
is probably fried. Thanks to having a backup router, I'm back on
the internet and uploading these pictures :-) |
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