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Had a close strike today that tripped all the breakers in the living room. The laptop was plugged in but it still worked so I didn't think much of it. Now thr charger doesn't work. I had one for a dell but the female was too big. Some aluminum foil wrapped around a toothpick took care of that for now. Got a new one ordered.
 
reading the title of you post just made me want to reply:
"Details at Eleven."
 
Down here that happens with regularity. Had a storm a couple weekends ago, had a strike that took out something like 120 modems & phones, a bit fewer small routers, dozens of computers. Scary stuff. Any "spark" capable of traveling thru five miles of atmosphere ain't gonna be thwarted by some puny battery backup/surge arrestor. And if it "sees" a comm line, hooboi.
 
I feel stupid as Kelly is the one that figured out what happened. I just thought the darn thing broke.
 
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