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If lightning happens to hit the phone lines out side, will the electricity flow through the modem, router etc. Into my PC up my headphones frying my brain?

poopots wrote:
> If lightning happens to hit the phone lines out side, will the
> electricity flow through the modem, router etc. Into my PC up my
> headphones frying my brain?

Wouldn't that be the coolest way to die though?

When it's thunder and lightening you should really turn off TVs, Computers etc. so it doesn't 'blow them up'.

i wouldn't know whether it would go through modem and fry your brain. you will have to wait and see. lol!

Gah. We didn't even get a proper storm at our place. We saw it in the dstance but then it kinda fizzled out before it got to us. Booo.

A family friend in last Friday's storm heard a noise up staires in his daughters bedroom. No-one was in the house execpt him. He went up stairs to see whats what, opened his daughters bedroom door & most of her electric toys had turned their self on. Freaky! He said it was like something out of a horror film.

Just turned it of in the end and watched sugar rush. My brothers PS2 switched it self on.

Tomm wrote:
> We had a minor power cut. The major appliances switched off for about
> a second and the little things kept going. :S Nearly shat myself. Saw
> lightening thro' my window, next momemnt, my comp had turned off...

YEh I too had a powercut. Really annoying

Your fuse box and some wiring will melt.

Unless you're somehow the path of least resistance by being a person made of metal you should be ok.

Lightning struck my school a few years back. It melted the surge protector (must have been really good) all the phone lines, all of the network cables and destroyed part of the roof.

All fun and games.

We had a minor power cut. The major appliances switched off for about a second and the little things kept going. :S Nearly shat myself. Saw lightening thro' my window, next momemnt, my comp had turned off...