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I Will Be Dropping Off For A While .................
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Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
Welcome Back Eul!Eul's back online!
It was just my router that got cooked. I was relatively lucky, the strike was very close, and almost everyone round about has had similar or worse damage to IT and/or phone equipment. And the guy who looks after my IT, and my service provider, have been very efficient. Obviously they understand that keeping Eulalia on CruxForums is a very high priority!
Which obviously works. The site hasn't crashed. 'nuff said!
twonines
LIMERICUS
Taming Barb, requires nerves of steel,With friends like these …..
A determination to make her squeal.
A long rattan cane
To deliver sharp pain,
Is needed to bring her to heel.
captivecuties
Senator
A warm welcome back and a welcome back to make warm from the whip!… as a slave’s work is never done!
It was just my router that got cooked. I was relatively lucky, the strike was very close, and almost everyone round about has had similar or worse damage to IT and/or phone equipment. And the guy who looks after my IT, and my service provider, have been very efficient. Obviously they understand that keeping Eulalia on CruxForums is a very high priority!
Which obviously works. The site hasn't crashed. 'nuff said!
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Welcome back, Eul!
wulf
God-Emperor
Don't despair Barb, we really do love you.With friends like these …..
Yes, knowing all you lot were running wild here was giving me nightmares!
Still, apart from writing off 5 pages of this thread, there doesn't seem to be too much mayhem.
Oh, you mean my router thingy?
poem21045
Tribunus Plebis
Yes, knowing all you lot were running wild here was giving me nightmares!
Still, apart from writing off 5 pages of this thread, there doesn't seem to be too much mayhem.
Oh, you mean my router thingy?
Routers can be dangerous. . . .
captivecuties
Senator
Safety goggles, always.
poem21045
Tribunus Plebis
But then I can't find my doobie!
captivecuties
Senator
I tried using beer goggles once but almost lost a finger.
wulf
God-Emperor
Yes, knowing all you lot were running wild here was giving me nightmares!
Still, apart from writing off 5 pages of this thread, there doesn't seem to be too much mayhem.
Oh, you mean my router thingy?
Oh yes.
We won't discuss the goings on while you were away.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
We kept the thread warm, to keep it on top of the list!Yes, knowing all you lot were running wild here was giving me nightmares!
Still, apart from writing off 5 pages of this thread, there doesn't seem to be too much mayhem.
Otherwise, it would have taken you too much time to search for it, to announce your return!
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
I guess there are conditions that even surge protectors (some are pretty lame) and universal power supplies can't handle. Lighting can generate both huge voltages and currents. Then there is the rare "ball lighting", which it is thought propagates by vaporizing silicates in the ground and riding on the resulting ions. It rolls right in and comes after you.
It was just my router that got cooked. I was relatively lucky, the strike was very close, and almost everyone round about has had similar or worse damage to IT and/or phone equipment. And the guy who looks after my IT, and my service provider, have been very efficient. Obviously they understand that keeping Eulalia on CruxForums is a very high priority!
Which obviously works. The site hasn't crashed. 'nuff said!
Yes, I was reading up on lightning. A neighbour says she saw a 'fireball' on the post where it struck, but only briefly, it didn't roll around, I don't think it was 'ball lightning'. But I also learnt that, when lightning strikes, the air round about is ionized, and highly conductive, so a charge can spread out powerful enough to damage delicate electrical equipment.
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Deleted member 38673 (BobbieBound)
Guest
Yes, Eulalia, people should have surge protectors on all their electronic devices.
So overvoltage protection devices cannot always discharge the high voltages quickly enough or they break and then you have a short circuit and are left in the dark.
Incidentally, my mother told me that she once experienced ball lightning, which came through the glass pane of the closed window and then burst in this room with a bang.
wulf
God-Emperor
It can also give off an odor from ionized air around the point of the strike, which is ozone. I was a block away when lightning struck a utility pole, and the ozone smell was quite strong even at that distance.