Three days ago I was working outside the new house installing metal hurricane shutters (corrugated sheet metal panels)
It was raining on and off with dark clouds around.
A few rumbles now and then.
I was outside drilling the holes for the track when KABOOM.
The sound was so powerful it almost brought me to my knees.
I was not scared at all but I mostly felt the shock wave of the sound
The house I build is a few hundred yards from the old house. My wife was at home. She was concerned that the lighting might have hit me since i was working with metal, while I was looking at the old house to see if any of the toll trees towering our house was hit.
The neighbor across the street told me to look towards the back of my new house where smoke was coming out.
It turned out that a transformer that was less than 100ft from my location was hit by lightning
The next transformer on the same line was damaged.
We lost power and I went to get my Honda generator to continue the work.
The Florida Power and Light was on the scene in the next hour and both transformers were changed in the next couple of hours Next day I noticed the 4 LED futures that were turned on at lightning time were out of commission. While I was changing them the cable guy showed up and said the underground cable got fried and he was going to lay a temporary one jut on top of the lawn.
Yesterday the neighbor which is on the same transformer as me, told me her AC compressor and the modem went.
Lots of damage by a single strike.
A few times when I changed services I found a surge suppressor on the line side of the main breaker.
I wonder how well they do the job . Anyone familiar with them? Thanks
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It was raining on and off with dark clouds around.
A few rumbles now and then.
I was outside drilling the holes for the track when KABOOM.
The sound was so powerful it almost brought me to my knees.
I was not scared at all but I mostly felt the shock wave of the sound
The house I build is a few hundred yards from the old house. My wife was at home. She was concerned that the lighting might have hit me since i was working with metal, while I was looking at the old house to see if any of the toll trees towering our house was hit.
The neighbor across the street told me to look towards the back of my new house where smoke was coming out.
It turned out that a transformer that was less than 100ft from my location was hit by lightning
The next transformer on the same line was damaged.
We lost power and I went to get my Honda generator to continue the work.
The Florida Power and Light was on the scene in the next hour and both transformers were changed in the next couple of hours Next day I noticed the 4 LED futures that were turned on at lightning time were out of commission. While I was changing them the cable guy showed up and said the underground cable got fried and he was going to lay a temporary one jut on top of the lawn.
Yesterday the neighbor which is on the same transformer as me, told me her AC compressor and the modem went.
Lots of damage by a single strike.
A few times when I changed services I found a surge suppressor on the line side of the main breaker.
I wonder how well they do the job . Anyone familiar with them? Thanks
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