Did Keranu get a girlfriend?

[Keranu]

Dude, a month or two ago lightning hit a tree next to our house (I should take a picture of the huge, cracked, barkless wound). Anyway, this caused a surge and ALL OF OUR PHONES broke. No joke. WTF?!! Our router was toast as well.

Thankfully, no damage to computers or our TV.

Man, we have a ton of trees in our backyard and they get hit pretty often actually. Most recently (like a month ago) lightning took out a main branch off an apple tree (our only apple tree!)! Luckily lightning hasn't really hit any trees that are actually next to our house which could cause some big damage (especially the one out front that has a telephone line going through it!)

Long, long ago, lightning struck nearby and destroyed everything in the house connected to a phone line.  That included all phones and my computer which had a dial-up modem.  It literally fried a hole in the motherboard.

Hot damn! A friend told me before about how thunder storms can destroy your computer if you're connected on a dial up modem but I wasn't sure if that could actually happen. I find it amazing that it actually fried a hole in your motherboard!

[Turbo D]

Long, long ago, lightning struck nearby and destroyed everything in the house connected to a phone line.  That included all phones and my computer which had a dial-up modem.  It literally fried a hole in the motherboard. 

wow, thats cool   

[Joe Redifer]

Lightning loves phone lines.

I think the hole may have been in the processor instead of the motherboard.  It was one of the two.

[Keranu]

Do you still have that motherboard? Is it possible for you to post pictures?

[Hobo Xiphas]

There is way too much dissing of Crete in here, I am going to have to write an essay with footnotes about why you guys should not be messing with Crete as it would kick your ass more than Texas ever could.

[Kitsunexus]

Have you ever gone outside to the box that connects your ADSL to the phoneline and had the lightning resistor CRUMBLE in your hand? It died admirably in the line of duty, and just like a T-800 completed it's mission and it's prime directive, but DAMN.

Lightning is a harsh mistress.

[ParanoiaDragon]

We have power outages, almost every summer.  So many people using up power with the air conditioners, now that partially includes myself, as I have one of those air conditioners where you stick the exhaust out the window, but everthing else stays inside.

[nat]

You people and your lighting. You obviously all live in the midwest.

Here on the west coast, we are lucky to see a single bolt of lightning during any given year, and it's usually a flash 10 miles away.

About the only natural disaster we really have to worry about are your friendly neighborhood earthquakes. Of course, I'd rather contend with an earthquake any day opposed to hurricanes, tornados, floods, or having to worry about being struck by lightning.

[Turbo D]

Ya, I think we get lightning every 2 years here on the west coast, haha. I haven't ever been awake during an earthquake, so I guess they aren't that bad.

[esteban]

You people and your lighting. You obviously all live in the midwest.

Here on the west coast, we are lucky to see a single bolt of lightning during any given year, and it's usually a flash 10 miles away.

About the only natural disaster we really have to worry about are your friendly neighborhood earthquakes. Of course, I'd rather contend with an earthquake any day opposed to hurricanes, tornados, floods, or having to worry about being struck by lightning.

I live in NJ now, but "winter" in southern california = a few overcast days and a few drizzles! Ha!

[nat]

I live in NJ now, but "winter" in southern california = a few overcast days and a few drizzles! Ha!

That's about right, even further north up the west coast. The only differences are more overcast days and some of the drizzles become showers. But still no biggie.

However, I'm all too familiar with New England winters-- my family is from New England and I still have some that live out there. We have a vacation house & property just outside Bath, Maine. I've got family all over from Bangor down to NYC and over to Connecticut. I enjoy visiting during winter, especially Christmas. Like you mentioned, out here we're lucky to have an overcast day and maybe some rain on Christmas day. Growing up I was spoiled every year with a "white Christmas" and it's just not the same here in the west.

[esteban]

I live in NJ now, but "winter" in southern california = a few overcast days and a few drizzles! Ha!

That's about right, even further north up the west coast. The only differences are more overcast days and some of the drizzles become showers. But still no biggie.

However, I'm all too familiar with New England winters-- my family is from New England and I still have some that live out there. We have a vacation house & property just outside Bath, Maine. I've got family all over from Bangor down to NYC and over to Connecticut. I enjoy visiting during winter, especially Christmas. Like you mentioned, out here we're lucky to have an overcast day and maybe some rain on Christmas day. Growing up I was spoiled every year with a "white Christmas" and it's just not the same here in the west.

Yeah, I moved back to the northeast because 95% of my family is here as well.

Bangor. I used to go camping in Maine and travel to Bangor because it was the only place to do stuff at night. And by "night", I mean "after 5:30 p.m." I did go to Stephen King's house (allegedly, anyway... the woman working in a small record shop might have been teasing us... but the house she directed us to did have gargoyles on the gates) just for the hell of it.

[nat]

I did go to Stephen King's house (allegedly, anyway... the woman working in a small record shop might have been teasing us... but the house she directed us to did have gargoyles on the gates) just for the hell of it.

For someone who spent virtually half his childhood in Maine, I'm somewhat embarassed to say I never visited Stephen King's house.  :oops:

Yeah, I moved back to the northeast because 95% of my family is here as well.

No surprise, considering 95% of the country's population lives there.

The other 5% is distributed as follows: 4% in California, and 1% is spread across the interior states, concentrated in towns such as Crete and Bumf*ck.

[Joe Redifer]

I'd rather have lightning than rust and humidity.

Keranu, no I fixed the computer long ago and sold it a couple of years later.

[Turbo D]

the snowy weather in Colorado will rust up metal 80% faster than the humidity here in Cali. Yes, I know there is snow there, I watch SouthPark