mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
:shocking:
I have had a pretty close relationship with elektrickery for all my life, even since what my mommy told me was about sticking the screwdriver in the 'lectrickery socket' when I was like age 6 or so.....
so some 60 years later, it seems it still reaches out and touches my ass....
when Linda gets her computer up and running again, you will see some pix I took of the damn TREE in the neighbors back yard, yup, you guess it right....
that lightening hit about 1130 monday morning, lit up the tree pretty good, flamed out Linda's computer, terminallly, along with my LAN, the router, and of course it takes comcast THREE modems to finally find a good one....no shit, two trips on their part, one to exchange the modem for me.....so including the flamed one, this is #4 in the house now....since Monday AM....
so on a lark, I call my old High school friend in Texas and tell him about it, was going to describe the mommy board and rest of the shit, so I going to send him the whole large tower mainframe, and in return, he is sending here by Friday...hopefully, a new computer for Linda....she dont know it yet...I will settle up with Ken when the smoke settles....
coping with all this shit is enough to drive me krazy...
SO I have taken the isolation transformer and put it along with it's surge protector in her computer room/office....and running the TV and other shit off the same isolation transformer I have under my desk....
this is the SECOND lightening strike on this house that has fucked up all my shit but good, first one was before Linda and I married, must be 11-12 years ago by now, that fried all the stuff but good....
NOW, you not going to believe it, BUT, that bolt hit this similar lightening rod/tree in Scott's back yard, some 150--200 feet from my garage....
starting about 25' off the ground for a distance of maybe 15' it completely garroted the bark and maybe outer wood off the tree, and split that 3' at the base tree trunk...about 2" wide all the way to the ground....
it shot tree bark/wood all over the hood, we are picking tree pieces outta our asses around here, everyone....
now get this shit, I had this dirty house fan without a stick of damnage on it, setting near the vette rear tire in driver's side....up against the wall, outta the way....a piece of that tree bark/wood shot into the garage so hard, hit that fan and busted out the housing edge....other pieces of tree in the garage too....missed both cars, but plenty of pieces under and all over the driveway....the stain on the pieces of plastic being same as the tree wood, told the tale, it was NOT me that made the initial observation on that one, but I gotta agree on the forensics at the crime...
when Linda gets back on the air, I going to stick some pix up on sites....
and you all need see Scott's camp trailer he had under the tree in the back yard there....
blew the cb? antenna off it, blew out all the plactic lenses from the side of it...all over the yard ....and somehow it arced over to a knob on the swing out sun canopy , and there is a silver dollar sized black welding mark where that vaporized knob was....the trailer is electrically toast at this point....
gotta admit the sky was SO black just before the strike, that I had to strike a match to see it.....
guy across the street spent about a grand already getting his shit fixed...
Scott and Mindy spent a easy grand so far on their shit, and we still not all back on the air again, Charlie and Bob are still walking wounded....I dunno about any other damage....
:gurney::ill::crap::drink:
I have had a pretty close relationship with elektrickery for all my life, even since what my mommy told me was about sticking the screwdriver in the 'lectrickery socket' when I was like age 6 or so.....
so some 60 years later, it seems it still reaches out and touches my ass....
when Linda gets her computer up and running again, you will see some pix I took of the damn TREE in the neighbors back yard, yup, you guess it right....
that lightening hit about 1130 monday morning, lit up the tree pretty good, flamed out Linda's computer, terminallly, along with my LAN, the router, and of course it takes comcast THREE modems to finally find a good one....no shit, two trips on their part, one to exchange the modem for me.....so including the flamed one, this is #4 in the house now....since Monday AM....
so on a lark, I call my old High school friend in Texas and tell him about it, was going to describe the mommy board and rest of the shit, so I going to send him the whole large tower mainframe, and in return, he is sending here by Friday...hopefully, a new computer for Linda....she dont know it yet...I will settle up with Ken when the smoke settles....
coping with all this shit is enough to drive me krazy...
SO I have taken the isolation transformer and put it along with it's surge protector in her computer room/office....and running the TV and other shit off the same isolation transformer I have under my desk....
this is the SECOND lightening strike on this house that has fucked up all my shit but good, first one was before Linda and I married, must be 11-12 years ago by now, that fried all the stuff but good....
NOW, you not going to believe it, BUT, that bolt hit this similar lightening rod/tree in Scott's back yard, some 150--200 feet from my garage....
starting about 25' off the ground for a distance of maybe 15' it completely garroted the bark and maybe outer wood off the tree, and split that 3' at the base tree trunk...about 2" wide all the way to the ground....
it shot tree bark/wood all over the hood, we are picking tree pieces outta our asses around here, everyone....
now get this shit, I had this dirty house fan without a stick of damnage on it, setting near the vette rear tire in driver's side....up against the wall, outta the way....a piece of that tree bark/wood shot into the garage so hard, hit that fan and busted out the housing edge....other pieces of tree in the garage too....missed both cars, but plenty of pieces under and all over the driveway....the stain on the pieces of plastic being same as the tree wood, told the tale, it was NOT me that made the initial observation on that one, but I gotta agree on the forensics at the crime...
when Linda gets back on the air, I going to stick some pix up on sites....
and you all need see Scott's camp trailer he had under the tree in the back yard there....
blew the cb? antenna off it, blew out all the plactic lenses from the side of it...all over the yard ....and somehow it arced over to a knob on the swing out sun canopy , and there is a silver dollar sized black welding mark where that vaporized knob was....the trailer is electrically toast at this point....
gotta admit the sky was SO black just before the strike, that I had to strike a match to see it.....
guy across the street spent about a grand already getting his shit fixed...
Scott and Mindy spent a easy grand so far on their shit, and we still not all back on the air again, Charlie and Bob are still walking wounded....I dunno about any other damage....
:gurney::ill::crap::drink: