Author Topic: Lightning Strike near my home  (Read 11121 times)

Offline KMSY

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Lightning Strike near my home
« on: December 30, 2007, 08:19:53 PM »
Last night around midnight, lighting struck my house or somewhere near. It blew the port on my modem and half the ports on my router. So today I went to BestBuy and got all new stuff. Pain in the arse. So the MSY feed was offline all day today. I also lost my dvd player and the phone system is messed up. Lightning strikes are expensive!



Offline Jason

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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2007, 08:51:47 PM »
Last night around midnight, lighting struck my house or somewhere near. It blew the port on my modem and half the ports on my router. So today I went to BestBuy and got all new stuff. Pain in the arse. So the MSY feed was offline all day today. I also lost my dvd player and the phone system is messed up. Lightning strikes are expensive!

They sure are, I don't need any convincing evidence, believe me.  :wink:

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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2007, 09:07:31 PM »
Uh oh... I thought the feed was up, and there wasn't much activity, but I was wrong.

The microphone jack on the computer is blown. I'm not sure if it was the lightning or not. The antenna is in the attic. The scanner is fine, the line out on it works. The audio cables work. But the microphone port is out.

THIS SUCKS! So the MSY feed will be out indefinitely. I'll have to find a way to route the cables from the scanner upstairs, connected to the antenna to the computers downstairs. The feed was connected using a laptop and wireless connection. My only option is to run a cable through the ceiling/floor. It would either be an Ethernet cable for the computer or an audio cable for the scanner/computer connection. I can't move one of our desktop computers (which are used extensively for gaming and need wired connections) upstairs without that wired connection. I'll see what I can do, but I'll be really busy with school. The feed could be out for good if I can't get it up by college time next fall. I'm terribly sorry the feed had to die like this. I was enjoying providing it.

Please, if there's a lightning storm outside, if you have the time and if possible, unplug the important stuff. The lightning strike could have cost us over $500.

Offline KSYR-pjr

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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2007, 11:27:49 PM »
Sorry to read of your situation.   Home owner's insurance normally would cover this type of incident, if applicable in your case.  My uncle's home took a direct lightning strike to their Dish Network satellite dish last year.  The charge jumped the satellite coax cable, traversed a gutter, then entered the house's electrical wiring.  Approximately $5000 worth of electronics and miscellaneous electric powered items (ceiling fans, etc.) were zapped into untimely electronic deaths.  Home owners covered it all for him at replacement cost.


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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2007, 01:34:05 PM »
Aw man, sorry to hear that.  :(

You don't have to warn me tho, I live in "Lightning Alley" in the middle of the lightning capital of the country.  My grounding rods have grounding rods.

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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2008, 12:20:25 PM »
Someone need to check the connections for the KMSY feed. I listened for over 5 min. and haven't heard anything.
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Re: Lightning Strike near my home
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2008, 01:49:26 PM »
Yep. The feed is down. I think the lightning strike affected my computer's sound board. I'm trying as hard as I can to find a solution. I have to route some cables through two floors/ceilings. Then I can start the feed through one of my desktop computers. I'm hoping I have it back up before Wednesday, when I go back to school.

Thanks for your concern.

Also, I think I'm going to enroll at Tulane University for next Fall, meaning the feed will stay up (if I get it up) for the next four years at least.